The Great Clockmaker

Sam was still trying to make sense of everything that had happened in the last twenty-four hours. Her head felt like it was stuffed with cotton. She had nearly nodded off during roll call but somehow managed to make it through.

Later in the morning, she had sat in her cruiser just down the block from Mama Kaiser’s Bakery. She tried to work up the courage to go in, to pretend that everything was normal… but there was no way in hell she could actually do that. After fifteen minutes she had finally left without getting her morning coffee.

While patrolling, her foster mom called three times, but Sam wasn’t ready to talk to her yet. She listened carefully to the radio, convinced that at any moment a call would come through that something had been discovered at the Myers property, something that would implicate her in Nina's disappearance… or worse, that Nina’s body would be found at the lake.