CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
I drove back to Laurel, parked at my apartment, and walked two blocks down the red brick sidewalks of Main Street to my office in the town’s historic business district. As I turned onto the front walk, the aura was briefly punctured by the booming bass and X-rated language of gangsta’ rap blasting from the open window of a passing car.
I stopped at Sheila’s desk to pick up my mail, which she’d segregated to a far corner of her desk.
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