The biker stared at the cop’s nameplate while she cuffed him—it was his daughter’s name.
Officer Sarah Chen had pulled me over for a broken taillight on Highway 49, but when she walked up and I saw her face, I couldn’t breathe.
She had my mother’s eyes, my nose, and the same birthmark below her left ear shaped like a crescent moon—the birthmark I used to kiss goodnight when she was two years old, before her mother took her and vanished.
“License and registration,” she said, professional and cold.
My hands shook as I handed them over. Robert “Ghost” McAllister.