CHAPTER 2
Ben seemed to take a lifetime to decide where and how to sit.
“Are you comfortable?” he asked once they were finally situated.
Jade didn’t answer. As far as she saw it, she’d never be comfortable. Not held up by some white cop ten minutes before she was supposed to stand up and share her testimony in front of her whole church.
And for what? That letter was just some stupid ploy. It didn’t mean anything. Jade had lived her life in fear. She was an expert on the subject and had eventually learned that fear can’t kill you.
And that you don’t go to the police when you’ve got a problem. It was bad enough the daycare where she worked invited the troopers in once a month to read stories to the kids. It was just as well the men who came couldn’t read her mind, or they’d never come b
