Chapter 14
One week later
Nell stared at her sketchbook. Between giving statements to Ben and Frank, Nell had sketch-dumped everything she could onto page after page of multiple sketchbooks. Alex had come by a couple of times, but he’d been a cop both times. She’d seen him make the switch after the shooting, so it wasn’t a shock. She might have been a little disappointed, but she sensed he was clearing decks, too, just in a different way.
It didn’t mean he’d come back as a friend. Her relatives had to be a problem for him, or his career anyway, even if he might kind of like her personally. A little. He’d kissed her like he liked her. She tried not to think about the kiss. It made her swing between hope and despair. It had been a great kiss and it would suck to never do it again. Most of
