“She forgets stuff sometimes.”
“She was confused and couldn’t tell us where she lived.”
“You knew?”
“I didn’t know knew.”
“What does that mean?”
Before he could answer, the officer lowered his phone.
“Dorothy was found several blocks from home this morning. She was confused and couldn’t tell us where she lived.”
A woman Justin had been quietly helping all summer had wandered away from home.
Justin’s whole face changed.
“Is she okay?”
“She’s safe.”
He immediately relaxed.
I didn’t.
“The first time I mowed her lawn, she wouldn’t answer the door. So I just did the front.”
A woman Justin had been quietly helping all summer had wandered away from home, and somehow my twelve-year-old’s name was taped all over her kitchen.
“What exactly have you been doing for her?”
Justin sighed.
“The first time I mowed her lawn, she wouldn’t answer the door. So I just did the front.”
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