A Dangerous and Cunning Woman by Ethan Johnson

Author:Ethan Johnson [Johnson, Ethan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ethan Johnson
Published: 2018-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Three days later, Diane was released from the hospital with orders to continue her bed rest. She was feeling restless, eager to get back into active duty. Her shoulder looked worse than it felt. The doctors stood firmly against it, on the grounds she had been comatose for nearly a month. They used words and phrases like “out of pocket” and “offline” most times, but Diane understood their hesitation. She just didn’t agree with it.

After all, she reasoned, the doctors were there to help her get better. She felt better. She saw no point in sitting around in her dorm room when she could be out making the city safer. Her lip curled into a snarl at the thought of Goodwin being praised for doing the bare minimum. The city needed more. It needed her to be cleaning up the mess.

Nevertheless, she accepted the verdict and thanked her driver for returning her to the former school where she lived. She looked up at the brick and concrete façade and sighed. She wondered what her life would be like if she had been allowed to stay in school, before being taken across the country by her father. She shook her head and put it out of her mind. She was doing okay, she determined. She had a good job. She was ready to earn it.

She returned to her dorm room and pushed the door open. She was shocked to find the room had been completely emptied to the walls. She pulled the closet door aside. Empty. She looked in the rudimentary bathroom. It was empty. The toilet had run dry.

“What the hell?” She spun around, trying to comprehend what had happened. Did they think she died? Had Goodwin and his buddies been screwing around with her stuff again? Was this a message she was no longer on the force? She pulled the door closed behind her and stormed off to the neighboring Panther Division building. Sergeant Parcells looked up from his tablet and smiled.

“Hey, you’re back upright. You gave us quite a scare, there.” He turned to the nearest administrative officer. “See? I told you she wasn’t going anywhere.”

Diane slapped her hand on the counter. “Well, my stuff did. Where is it? Where am I supposed to sleep? It’s hard to get the bed rest they ordered me to have without a bed.”

Parcells was taken aback by this. “Oh, they didn’t tell you? Change of scenery.” He tapped away at the tablet. “Let’s see… lower floor, cell block F…” He frowned and swiped his finger across the screen as Diane felt a blend of terror and rage swelling up inside of her. They were confining her to another jail cell? What had she done to deserve it? Or, was this a different sort of punishment for not moving out to her own place?

Parcells shook his head and smiled apologetically. “Sorry, I was in the middle of something else. I didn’t want to forget what I was doing. Anyway, yeah, while you were out, there have been some changes on the housing front.

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