Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty One
Joel woke up in the early gray light alone again. This morning he didn’t bother rising until the sun peeked through the window blinds. When he finally did, his nagging suspicion was shortly confirmed.
Neither Jessie nor Archer came back at all from another night at the Dunn’s.
“What are you more disappointed in?” Debra asked on their morning walk together in the yard. “Jessie not coming home? Or your shotgun not coming home?”
“How could they not come back at all?” Joel replied. “And how can we be okay with it, you and I, not even going over to check on them? That should be equally disturbing, don’t you think?”
“I thought about it briefly.” Debra sipped at her coffee. “Did you?”
“Very briefly.”
“Hmm. Neither of us appears to be overly-consumed
