Phoebe was allowed to change into her own clothes, the black dress and heels, for the arraignment hearing. Looked as though no one wanted to get in the way of her speedy release. Nice that everyone was being so accommodating, and just when she’d decided jail wasn’t so bad. Calvin had vanished, replaced by a smarmy snake that had probably slithered out from under a rock near Harding. Harding was reacting as expected, which should be comforting but somehow wasn’t.
The man he’d once been had been predictable only up to a point. She remembered one occasion when she’d thought she’d had him figured out. He’d broken her arm during that beating. The only time she’d had to go to the emergency room. He’d told the ER nurse that she’d taken a tumble down the stairs. Usually he was too careful to leav
