Chapter 66Phaola and I drove out to the state game lands on the other side of the county line. Parked my black Toyota Highlander hybrid by the road and walked into the woods along a familiar trail.
After a while, we emerged in a meadow on a hilltop. It was a place I'd been to not so long ago.
"So what's this all about?" Phaola rose into the air and had a bird's-eye look around. "What's this big opportunity you mentioned?"
I walked through the tall grass to the middle of the meadow. The wicker cross was still there, right where we'd left it after Aggie's funeral.
"There's a job opening." Smiling to myself, I reached into the front pocket of my bluejeans and pulled out the pearl necklace Laurel had received at her Parapets membership ceremony. Though the pearls, which had once bee
