Chapter 33
Carol Lynne
Not that much later, police cruisers and an ambulance arrived.
A few other officers ran past us with their guns drawn and went into the house. “Ma’am, put the g*n on the ground and your hands up in the air,” one of them shouted.
Shit!
She must've complied because they said, “Now back away from the gun.”
That familiar pull to defend her, hammered at me, to talk to them and clear her name. But there was no way I’d leave Charlie, who sobbed and trembled in my arms.
I rubbed his back, hoping to ease his pain in any way possible.
An officer commanded, “Turn around and put your hands behind your head.”
I stretched my neck to see inside, but I couldn’t see past the backs of the two officers who blocked my view.
One of them wrenched his handcuffs from his belt and
