Chapter 15

He looked at me for a moment. He said, "Can you prove that?"I said, "Give me about ten minutes."He said, "I'm going to need more than that."I said, "I know, but can you give it to me anyway?"He looked at me for a long moment. He had been on the job long enough to read the room. He had looked at Karen. He had looked at me. He had looked at the situation. Something was adding up for him, even if he did not have all the numbers yet.He said, "I'll give you a few minutes."He walked back toward Karen and the other officers. Karen was already talking. She had been talking the entire time he was with me, and she picked up wherever she had left off without a gap.Now, here is the moment, the one I want you to pay close attention to:While the officer was still about five feet from Karen, still walking toward her, a woman stepped out from the back edge of the crowd. I did not know her. She was probably 50, maybe a little younger. She had been at the back of the party most of the afternoon from what I had seen from the tailgate. She had stayed out of the cake fight entirely; her clothes were clean. She looked like someone who had spent the last two hours watching very carefully and keeping very quiet.She stepped close to the officer. She said it quietly, the way you say something when you want one specific person to hear it and nobody else.She said, "Just so you know, she told every single person here today that she owns this property. She said she bought it recently. None of us knew anything different until just now."Karen had heard it. She turned from the other officer she'd been talking to mid-sentence. She looked at the woman. The woman looked back at her. Neither of them said anything.Karen turned back to the first officer. She said, "That is completely irrelevant! They are still trespassing! They came onto this land, and they assaulted me!"The officer said, "Ma'am, if you don't own this property, then you are the one who is trespassing."She said, "I didn't say I don't own it! I said we rented it! We rented this property for the day! It was a private rental, and that means this is our private event, and they are still trespassing, and I still want them arrested!"The officer looked at her. He said, "Who did you rent it from?"

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