“Thanks.Now take me to the bone.”
TWELVE
T
hey chatted back and forth on the walk up to the town center.“I left my car at the station.It’s just a couple blocks up.You okay pulling your suitcase up the hill?”
“Are you kidding?I lived in Durham for a year.Everywhere is uphill there.”
“I loved seeing all the pictures you posted.It looks magical.”
Bronwyn smiled.“It is.I love it so much and kinda miss it already.”
“Did you apply for a PhD there?”
“Not yet.I wanted to get some actual field experience before that.I’ll apply next year, and at York and Edinburgh as well, maybe a few others.Fingers crossed that one of them will take me on.”
“I love that I have such a brilliant friend.”
“Ha.Brilliant is stretching it.More like determined.”
At the top of the hill, they turned onto Harborview.“There’s the sheriff’s office just up ahead.Did I tell you my friend Rafe is the new sheriff?”
“No, but that’s very cool.You know him from here?”
“Yeah.Get this, he was sent over initially one summer for a kind of boot camp to try and scare him straight.He came back with his family for summer vacations almost every year after that.”
“Did it straighten him out?”
“Seems like it.”
“And now he’s sheriff.”Bronwyn laughed.“That’s awesome.”
“Isn’t it?He spent a lot of time on the island over the years, but I think he still feels a little bit like a fish out of water after working as a cop in Seattle for so long.This is a major downshift in terms of change of pace, but a much bigger responsibility, and of course there are some politics involved, which I’m sure he hates.”She glanced at her friend.“What do you think of the town?”
“It’s charming, and everything I imagined it would be.You’re so lucky to call this home now.”
