Chapter 62
Chapter Sixty Two: — THE SUN WAS high over the town, sparkling off the tin roof of the hardware store and the windshields of passing cars, as if teasing everyone that spring had arrived in February. But it felt like dark winter in Lauren Brigman’s heart as she walked over to her father’s office. When she’d been little, she used to sit on the steps of the county offices and count the cars. Crossroads, Texas, sat on a big X of two highways. East-west. North-south. All those years ago she’d sworn she’d travel every road when she grew up. But she hadn’t. She seemed to be one of those people who never learned to pack. As she walked into the sheriff’s office, Lauren realized there was nowhere she’d rather be than this town. She was right on the X, the crossroads, the center of the world. P
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