I'll come right away, of course… prepared, too, to believe everything the ‘shaky’ witness has to tell me.
*****
7:00 a.m.
Driving south, I pick up my cell phone, punch out a number in L.A.
Pam answers, voice groggy.
I know it's early. Sorry I woke you, I tell her. To say I've been missing you is why I called. You said it yourself – that I wouldn't know how much till I got back home. Well, this is my eighth day back, and now I think I know.