19 NoraFuming, Nora glared at her insistent cellphone.
Kent’s name showed on the display.
She was fighting for her professional life. And the only help he can offer is this Father-Knows-Best crap?
She’d find the name of Freemantle’s cop-minion on her own. She’d drive up to the King County detention facility and ask her mom.
Though first she better make sure Patty-Jean was still in the slammer. She called her most reliable source for the information.
“She’s out,” Opal Dockson replied “She’s here making the usual fool of herself.”
Her mother was in Pendleton.
Had she earned probation by bad-mouthing her daughter?
According to Kent, his cop buddy in Bellevue had dismissed Patty-Jean’s made-up stories as not worth dealing for. Had that happened? Or had Kent lied?
“You got a contact nu
