After lunch was when it happened – I was called to the Erling's office the clock read 1:40 pm. The hour of my devastation was at hand. I approached ...he door with dread and apprehension as I walked through the threshold and knew I was doomed. There the boss sat on the edge of the desk. The bright blue pinstripe suit, coupled with the blue power tie (with a lone red stripe), gave Erling a particularly confident appearance. Erling held a look of controlled anger while in Erling's right hand was a. “As my father said, I was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and we lived on the big Naval Air Station there; my father was posted on an aircraft carrier that had its home port there. We stayed there until I was maybe five; then we moved to Norfolk, Virginia, close to my grandparents place. That’s when his ship was deployed to Vietnam, I didn’t see much of him for a couple of years. Mum was really upset, worrying about him all the time, afraid that any day, some senior Navy officers would come to. She poured two glasses of wine, filling them halfway; he hadn’t noticed the bottle tucked away on one of the other seats, nor the glasses. It was rich and red, smelling of berries and cinnamon. She set his in front of him, then hers. He noticed that his was centered on the apex of the triangle, and hers in the very center of the base on her side. “Wait to drink.”From the folds of her robe, she pulled a small drawstring pouch, grey, with a lemon yellow string, and opened it. She took a small. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cruzita MartínezI was so screwed. So damned screwed.That thought screamed through my mind as I sat in Judge Coburn's office. The stunned look on the older man's face would have made his hair go white if it wasn't already mostly there. He shifted and then glanced at the photo of his daughter, Tammy. He had her late in life. From his second wife, who died a decade or more ago.“I just...” He looked up to me and then to my superior in the District Attorney's office..