Chapter 36
Jacksonville, FL
Friday
QUENTIN AND NATE had driven the Wilsons to the airport late Wednesday afternoon. They’d spent part of Wednesday evening, and most of Thursday getting themselves up-to-date on their rounds of the service stations. At the moment, Nate was at Episcopal High School, dealing with his Friday classes, and Quentin was waiting for his client to arrive. Mrs. Richards was only a few minutes late when she arrived at the office, and apologized for that.
“For some reason, traffic on Friday seems to be worse than other days,” she said when she was sitting in a side chair across from Quentin’s desk.
“That’s true,” he said. “Thanks for meeting me today, instead of tomorrow.”
“You said you had to go out of town to a funeral,” she said. “Things like that happen.”
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