Chapter 22Emery
Coming out of the Family Life Center with pamphlets filling both hands, but little else in the way of information, and certainly nothing specific to Lina and her whereabouts, Emery saw an older woman talking to her mom through the driver’s side window. Her mom literally knew just about everyone in her age group around town, and many of their children as well.
“Em, come say hi to Leticia Davenport. You went to school with her son Stephen, remember?”
Unfortunately, she remembered him all too well. He’d been the bane of her existence all through middle school. Some of the girls thought he had a crush on her, but Emery suspected he only wanted to get closer to copy off her tests. He had designs not on her ravishing beauty as he put it, but on her mind. He’d proven that when
