Chapter 96

Kathy was right. She had one last hurrah before she gave up.

I loved all of her family except her oldest brother. He was a cop, a shift commander. He was also arrogant and a bully. We tolerated each other, just. He'd taken to pulling me over regularly, just to mess with me and demand I forgive his sister. I talked to Paul, he had me log the next four stops, and the good commander found himself explaining his interest in me to the assistant chief. The stops halted, and it didn't make him like me more.

It was two weeks before the final hearing. The sun was shining, spring was in the air, and I was feeling happy for the first time in a long while.

The Yamaha was humming right along that Saturday morning when the lights came on behind me. I pulled over.

I was getting my license out, not looking at him, when he tasered me, put me in cuffs and threw me in the back of his car. I had just come around when he stopped at a nearby park, hauled me out while I ranted, and handcuffed me to a be