e private underground garage of a luxury apartment building next to
rms. Her blood had soaked completely through his expensive suit jacket, stai
. Wallace, the senior housekeeper, stood in the foyer. When she
own the hallway. He kicked the door of the largest gues
o the room carrying a heavy medical case. He was complaining about
overing Ingram. He stopped talking immediately.
refused to step back. His eyes were glued to T
t. He exposed her back and stomach. Massive, dark pur
had internal damage. He told Ingram that if he had brought her i
ed. The temperature in the room seemed to drop ten de
m his forehead with the back of his arm. He finished the la
am. He asked who this girl was and why Ingram was stan
lian and told him he was sleeping on the couch toni
loody tools, and walked out to the livi
ceiling window. He looked down at the bright lights of Manhattan.
wiped the mud off the plastic surface. He rubbed the dirt out of th
mer walked in. He held a thin, encry
was Tina Valenzuela. He said she had been violently kicked
ed down hard on the small charm. The plastic dug i
l of smoke. The heat of the fire. The tiny five-year-old girl who
her cousin broke the urn containing the ashes tonight. He con
iolent anger burned in his chest. The ai
ll the police and report the
olice were too easy. He said he was going to make
walked back to the bed. He stood over T
brushed the damp hair away from her fo
er lips were dry and cracked. She looked so
the edge of the thick white bandage taped ju
girl who saved him had a pale pink birthma
. He wanted to rip it off. He wanted to see it. But he s
was unconscious. He would w
ned and told Ingram he smelled like a slaug
hroom. Right before he closed the door,
CEO. It was the look of a man who had been sta
shed the blood down the drain, but it could
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