CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
ACKIE SAID: “No… don’t say anythin’. Let me think.”
I walked away from the bed. My brain was stiff.
Ackie put his hand on Blondie’s arm, then he took her wrist and raised it. I just stood there and watched him. “She ain’t been dead long,” he said. He covered her with the sheet and came away from the bed.
He said: “We’ll look in the other rooms.”
I stayed right there and let him do it. He came back after a while and shook his head. “There’s no one anywhere.”
I sat down.
“You see, they didn’t kill her… they’ve only taken her away,” Ackie said.
He went out of the room again.
I repeated after him: “They’ve only taken her away.” I guess I felt as bad as when I thought she was dead.