Chapter 5
Midmorning came and went before all the admin stuff was accomplished. Finally the officers took Gary away, closed their notebooks and left the scene. The parents of the boy who had cowered in Gary’s car the whole time came and got him. They wept with relief to find their son alive and relatively unharmed. Some of the officers left to collect Rickie from the other apartment where he’d been barricaded inside.
After Kerry promised to check in first thing Monday morning and get her report done by noon, Jeff Fields excused her to go home and recover from the adventure. Getting home would take some time, she knew, as they had at least two stops to make, but that was okay. She wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye to Frank and Roy until she knew how things stood between her and them. Was
