“You think you’re clever? In my town, nobody hears you scream. And nobody’s coming to save you.”
He pushed me through the glass doors toward his running patrol car. A young deputy followed, awkwardly carrying my purse.
My government phone vibrated inside it with an urgent alert.
The message came from my district’s Chief Judge. Judgerobe sales
Voss believed he had shamed another defenseless stranger. He never imagined whom he had arrested; his trouble at the station had barely begun.
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