Chapter 23
10:40 AM, Monday June 22nd
Muskingum County Sheriff’s Department
“Any word on our crash victim, Holly?” Mel asked her friend, the deputy who had been acting as her assistant since she’d become the Sheriff, as she walked through the door.
“He’s stable but still in the ICU.” Holly followed Mel into her office.
“Why’d you go out to the scene last night? I thought Mason was on call?”
Mel shrugged. “I was closer,” she said. She wasn’t sure that Holly, or anyone in the department for that matter, knew Janet had been living in Morelville too and with Barb, at that. It hadn’t been her business to bring it up and she wasn’t about to do it now.
The look Holly gave her told her she wasn’t buying that explanation.
“Hell, I don’t know. Patrol called me. I went.”
Holly stood there, a
