Time slowed to a crawl, my heartbeat thudding in my ears, entire body shaking while the squish-squish-squish sound of Ruth's sneakers drew closer. Any second now she'd pass the edge of her desk, close her safe, turn and-

And find me hiding in the worst possible place an idiot like me could hide in a (suspected) murderer's office. I clasped one hand over my mouth to keep from screaming as the first white toed foot appeared, the hem of her lab coat, big calf lined with varicose ...