Chapter Six
I left the circus with a lot on my mind, headed home, to chew it all over until the sun came up and I could actually accomplish something. As was my habit, I cruised past my office to assuage my natural paranoia. It's always fine and I always keep going. That night, of course, it wasn't fine.
I killed my lights while I was still on the street, shifted the transmission into 'Neutral' and shut the engine off, turned hard and coasted quietly into my own parking lot. I pulled up short of my office. Yes, sisters and brothers, I'm goofy. But I wasn't being goofy. The place had been vandalized. The glass door to the vestibule was shattered; as was the window to my waiting room, Lisa's office, beyond.
Speaking of Lisa… Her car was there, in the lot. I fought the urge to panic. But I
