Chapter 9
I parked on the street and pushed the door opener allowing the SUV to drive into the garage. We saw my wife scramble out the rear door and into the house. Several minutes later, our teenage babysitter came out carrying her school books and got in the backseat of my car behind Troy, who looked at me in confusion. “I need to give Tammy a ride home,” I told him.
The three of us rode in silence the ten or fifteen minutes to Tammy’s home. Then he and I sat in the car watching until the young girl was safely inside.
“What about hubby?” Troy said into his phone on the drive back.
“Leave him in the car, for now,” I heard Randy say. “Like we discussed.”
I caught a brief glint of light reflecting from a badge on Troy’s belt when he handcuffed me to the steering wheel. “I’m going to le
