Where did you get that ring

it the night before “to update my emergency contacts.” She had not given it back.

I sat in that dusty building for another ten minutes, thinking.

Then I heard a voice from the front.

“Miss Evelyn?”

Marlene.

I stood, clutching the papers.

“In here.”

She appeared in the doorway, concern on her face. “Bus route’s done for now. I got worried when I didn’t see continue reading …