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Silvy.
He didn’t stop to talk to me, but he did allow me through with a wave.
Which worked for me because I was about to do some breaking and entering.
When I got to her house, I didn’t bother with going around the back. I went right up to the front door and picked the lock.
An alarm didn’t sound, but a “you are being recorded” could be heard from somewhere in the house.
“Folsom,” I said as I started walking around, noting all the hastily picked through belongings in the house.
Empty boxes sat on the kitchen table.
Clothes were strewn everywhere on the couch.
The bedrooms were worse.
But then I started to notice the lack of clothes in the closet and the bare shelves in the bathroom.
She’d left.
I knew that with a certainty that was chilling.
CHAPTER 6
I look better bent over.
-Folsom to Kobe
FOLSOM
Me: Why are you in my house?
The text would’ve come from my new burner phone.
But, at the last second, I backed out of the message.
“Momma, this place is horrible.”
I looked over at JP, who was glaring down at her tablet.
It didn’t have the fast internet that she was used to.
In fact, if I were being completely honest, the internet was utter trash, and it was no better than a hotspot with spotty cell reception.
“I can’t work like this!” She threw her hands up in frustration.
I agreed.
I couldn’t work like this either.
My first call in the morning would be to Starlink. Remote places like this would definitely qualify for the service.
But it was just one of those things that I had to wait and wait some more for everything to fall into line. Moving around wasn’t easy. Especially when you were trying to do it quietly while also remaining anonymous.
Leaving the house in Accident had been rough.
Not only had I loved it there, but so had JP.
