The Post by Kevin A. Muñoz

Author:Kevin A. Muñoz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2018-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

I find Mayor Weeks at the Carter Center, where he has moved his meeting with the Inman Park leaders. I wait impatiently in his office, marveling as I always do at the large oak desk and the wall-to-wall bookshelf displaying hundreds of academic works as if they were bricks. Weeks once told me this collection is only a portion of the one he used to have, back when he was a professor. Even so, compared to my collection, this is the Library of Congress. Running my fingers over the titles brings a certain satisfaction, and some relief, while I wait.

When he finally arrives, I rush toward him. “I think I know—” I begin.

He interrupts. “You’re going to get her back,” he says, as if expecting me to be on the fence.

“Yes. Of course. If I—”

“No, Edison. I mean you. You are going to get her back. We have the peace officers from Inman Park. We can make do while you’re gone.”

“That’s what I came here to say,” I tell him. “I thought I was going to have to convince you to let me go, and not just send people from the sweep team.”

“I love Phoebe like she were my own,” Weeks says. “And after today, I don’t trust anyone else.” He chews on this for a moment. “I couldn’t face Regina if I had to tell her you were staying behind.”

“I’m going to need—”

“Anything. Take it.” Weeks sits down hard in his leather chair as if suddenly exhausted. “We can survive almost anything, Chief. But not the children. Not losing children.”

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