LESSIE I stood frozen in the doorway, unable to believe what I was seeing.White powder streaked the edge of Sandra’s desk like spilled sugar. For a heartbeat, I couldn’t process it, my mind refused to match the image before me with my best friend. Sandra’s head snapped up, eyes wide, panic flashing across her face like a flare before she scrambled to swipe at the evidence.“Lessie, wait..it’s not what it looks like,” she blurted, her voice pitching high. She was using the back of her sleeve to wipe the powder off the table, smearing it across the wood. “I swear, it’s not.”My stomach dropped, cold dread pooling at the base of my spine. “Then what the hell is it, Sandra?” My words came out sharper than I meant them to. “Because it sure as hell looks like cocaine.”She froze, her hands mid-motion, then dropped them, shoulders curling in as she turned to me with a shaky laugh. “God, don’t say it like that. You’re making it sound worse than it is.”“Worse than it is?” My voice crac
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