He found her lunch bag, homework, and her tablet she used for schoolwork, though he admitted he’d only seen it twice over the last couple of weeks. She had definitely taken advantage of his inexperience as a parent and gotten away with things Briar would never have permitted. He found a lighter at the bottom of the bag. Interesting. He palmed it without the child seeing it and put it in his pocket.
He noted Shamia’s eyes grew wide when he opened her bag. He found the same items in the other child’s bag, homework, tablet, and lunch bag. He had a strange compulsion to look in the lunch bag and found a cigarette. Again, he palmed the cigarette as he had the lighter, keeping his countenance as straight as if he had found nothing and then zipped up the bags. He could almost see the relief on t
