The Sinners' Garden by William Sirls

Author:William Sirls
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Christian, ebook, General
ISBN: 9781401687380
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

There you go, Brianna,” Heather said, placing the cup of coffee on the desk.

Despite the young reporter’s good intentions, there was something about her that was getting under Heather’s skin. Besides, they’d already talked for twenty minutes and Heather had said all she had to say. Now the girl wanted coffee? How long was this going to drag on?

“Thanks for the java,” Brianna said, tapping her finger on the side of the Styrofoam cup, then lifting it for a tiny sip. “You know, there are other things happening regarding the Summer Santa that seem to be sliding under the radar of the Benning Police Department.”

“Really?” Heather said, glancing past the reporter and out the open door at Chief Reynolds.

One thing Little Miss Rolex and her Louis Vuitton bag didn’t know was that in small towns, everybody knew everything everyone else was doing, and even some things they weren’t doing.

Heather knew a lot of what hadn’t made the paper yet, like the yellow lab puppy that was left in the Millers’ living room to replace Finnegan, whom they had to put down only a few days before. She had also heard about the bag of toys that had been left in the Ansons’ kitchen. Besides that Becky girl out on Old Parker Road, they were the poorest folks in town, and thanks to the man in black, their twin boys had a birthday to remember. And last but not least, word was traveling fast about the Summer Santa’s biggest gift yet—the fifteen thousand in cash that had been left over at Mick Solack’s food bank just outside of town. But still, Heather was curious what Lois Lane thought she knew.

“Like what?” Heather asked. “What’s sliding under the radar?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” Brianna said. “Just little things. I’m not here to report things you don’t know about. Was just curious if you’ve heard anything.”

Something about the way the reporter was talking almost had Heather feeling that she was supposed to pry.

“The first time we chatted,” Heather said, “you mentioned that you thought the Summer Santa wanted to get caught. I still don’t completely understand why you would say that.”

“Just a hunch,” Brianna said.

“You said that last time. You also suggested that he may be trying to balance some scale in his personal life. Or something like that.”

Brianna paused and seemed to consider what she was going to say. “I think it’s like he’s easing his conscience about something. He wants to do good, but seems to enjoy an unnecessary risk while doing it.”

“Why even bother taking that risk?” Heather asked. It was the billion-dollar question that nobody seemed close to having the answer to.

“I don’t know,” Brianna said. “But regardless, he is making some pretty good news.”

“True,” Heather said.

“It’s also kind of interesting that he only seems to work on the nights that you do.”

“It’s probably a coincidence,” Heather said, thinking, How would she know that? “We are a small department.”

“Mind if I ask you something?” Brianna asked. “It may be a little personal.

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