A Quiet Reckoning

Judd drove in silence.

Not the silence of a man grinding through anger the way he had driven for months, the white-knuckled, jaw-tight silence of someone who had decided that the world was wrong and was working out how to prove it. This was different. This was the silence of a man who had just sat across from a fourteen-year-old girl who had every reason to be his enemy and had chosen not to be, a