Chapter 4Eight soldiers accompanied Al and I out to the site where we’d found the dead girl. I didn’t expect to find anything fresh here, it was just a starting point. But I wasn’t all that hopeful the soldiers would be any help.
Not that they were all that bad. They listened if I was speaking, but so far, if they had something to say, yeah—they only talked to Al.
“Come on. You’re not doing this alone.” Al tugged on my arm and I didn’t argue when he led me to the other side of Jeff’s barn to shift.
Al was clearly going to have my back, and I was…good with that. I liked it, even.
We weren’t far enough away that I couldn’t hear the disgusted mutters as we walked off, but Al didn’t have the acute hearing I did. That was a good thing, because Al might’ve taken the gun of the one who’d just
