CONSTABLE RALEIGH WAS almost at the x-ray suite before he caught up to his partner, whom he was surprised to see wasn’t already with the prisoner they had been sent to watch over. He wasn’t worried that his partner wasn’t where he was supposed to be, he wasn’t either, because the constable from Oakhurst was with the teen murderer they had followed from the village, and the teen was unconscious.
“Where’ve you been?” Raleigh asked curiously as he fell in beside his fellow constable. “You only had to park the car.”
“It wasn’t easy finding a parking space,” Constable Bass replied. “The car park’s pretty full, you’d think it’d be quieter, given how much it costs to spend any time there, and I had to get a ticket. Then I had to find the place. What about you, you should have been here already,
