Chapter Four
Mark took in Gail, who was rustling papers, stapling something, then slid around in his chair and took in the chief. The man was in his office, talking on the phone. Mark’s dog was lying on the dog bed, his eyes open, staring at him.
His phone dinged with another message from Billy Jo:
Well?
So much for their peaceful dinner out. The evening had turned into a bombshell of secrets about the chief’s family.
He turned off the screen and turned his phone over, still trying to get his head around what Billy Jo had told him. Then there was Sybil at the coffee shop. He planned to stop in later and have a talk about Roland Shephard, who was harassing her. But as he stared at Gail, he had no clue how to go about tactfully and carefully looking into the problem in the chief’s famil
