I looked back up. I noticed the front door slowly opening. Porter! Oh, thank God. "You don't have to do this," I said. I needed to distract her. I couldn't let her hear him coming in. "We can just tell the cops it was an accident. You won't have to go to jail."
"Nothing I do will send me to prison. People like me don't end up in jail."
Criminals? I thought about James' rap sheet. He never ended up serving time. Maybe she was right. People like her didn't end up in prison. I needed to think of something to stall her. "Who's been telling you everything?"
"It's not just one person, Penny."
"Who then?"
"This is really what you want to know on your deathbed? As your whole meaningless life flashes before your eyes? I pity you."
"At least tell me how you got up here." Please let this be wor
