Chapter Five
In a low voice, he said, “Clearly, Burton hasn’t had the opportunity to speak with the family yet. But it seems disingenuous of us to just carry on like nothing happened.”
“I’ll call Burton,” I said.
Wilson gave a nod of his head and briskly walked to his office, carefully avoiding looking in Nate’s direction as he passed by.
After Burton answered and I explained the situation he said, “Just hold on. I’ll be right over there. The state police have got things covered here for now and it would be better for me to be the one to let the family know.”
I carefully kept myself busy by checking in books that had been left in the book-drop the day before. About twenty minutes later, I breathed a sigh of relief as Burton came in.
“You can take him into the breakroom if you want,”
