Summary

In “Now,” Paula tells Mickey that the man in the video is the same one who makes girls give him oral sex so he will not arrest them. Paula refuses to report the cop. Mickey senses she is “on the wrong side of something important” (212). Because Ahearn is not in the office, Mickey leaves him a voicemail indicating she has something important to talk about.

Mickey wakes the next morning to a text from Bethany. It has snowed during the night, and Bethany claims she cannot make it. Mickey is outside, shoveling the driveway when Mrs. Mahon tells her that she can pay the next-door neighbor’s son to do that work. Because Mickey has no one to watch Thomas, Mickey asks Mrs. Mahon to keep him. Mickey is surprised how clean Mrs. Mahon’s house is. Even though Thomas appears to be...