Chapter Twenty-Six
Lacie saw Shep at his office. The whole experience was surreal, she actually looked forward to seeing his friendly face. The case had strapped them into a rollercoaster together and they weren’t free of it yet.
Something as simple as locating a person had thrown all their lives into the dryer and turned it up to full. Booth was dead, Sorcha was still pregnant, and Lacie hadn’t helped anything. All she had accomplished was to cause trouble and burden. She and Shep had been talking for almost an hour when he asked her to lunch, so they carried on their conversation on the walk to the mall.
While they walked, Sorcha called to say she was back in the country, in a cab driving away from the airport. Shep told her where they were headed, and Sorcha redirected her taxi for t
