Needle You Mind by ACF Bookens

Author:ACF Bookens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andi Cumbo-Floyd

On our ride home a few minutes later, Santi and I sat quietly for a bit. My brain was weaving around, trying to put threads together. Tuskins was clearly still in love with Viola McNamara, and it seemed that maybe she had still loved him, too, or at least cared for him in some way since she kept his note. Yet they hadn’t gotten back to each other, even after all these years and all this societal change, including a shift that would have probably made it possible for her to do all she wanted and for him to approve.

“Unless he still didn’t approve?” I blurted out into the car.

“What? Approve of what? Who is he?” Santi glanced over at me. “What are you talking about, baby?” He was laughing now.

I smiled back. “Do you know anything about JudgeTuskins, as a judge, I mean?”

Santi nodded. “I did a little research. He’s pretty moderate, it seems. Careful to uphold the letter of the law but also not extreme. Apparently, he has a soft spot for younger people who get into trouble. The attorney I talked to said he likes to give second chances to people who might have made a simple bad choice.”

This all aligned with what I’d seen of the man so far—kind but no-nonsense. “So he’s not a wild law and order kind of guy, not prone to try to send a message with worse sentences or something?”

My husband chuckled. “You have watched way too many law dramas, Paisley. Yes, judges have predispositions and patterns, but it’s not like they can just use the law the way they want.”

I sighed. “TV makes everything so much easier.”

“Yes, yes, it does,” he said. “But what were you thinking that made you ask that?”

I turned in my seat to face him fully. “I’m trying to understand why two people who cared about each other enough to save notes and build gazebos for decades and lived only a little distance apart didn’t just get together.”

“And you were thinking Tuskins might have still been a bit anti-feminist?”

“You know me so well. Did you get any sense of that?”

Santi shook his head. “No, but I will say that in this job, I find people are not always consistent. In fact, we rarely are. He could be pretty open-minded about some things but still thinks women shouldn’t work. You know what I mean?”

I did know. My own dad was that way—totally great with my friends’ trans kids but still thought homeless people should just get a job. Some belief systems were just further entrenched than others.

I sighed and turned back to rest against my seat as my brain continued to pick through the tidbits of information we’d learned in the past week. Olivia Weiss had a history of disappearing, a fact Santi had found rather infuriating since no one had told him that when he started looking for her. The hidden broach with the note from Abe Tuskins wasn’t from Abe Tuskins. And now, Tuskins had

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