Love's Shadow: A Bitter End

pered into the phone, his voic

homicide. The case is still open. Korey V

looked at Korey, then at the empty room, then back at Korey. A

a hollow echo in my own mind. You should

ed Korey, his voice barely a

ar traced a path down his cheek. He didn't ne

age. He reached into his jacket

narled, flinging the contents of the enve

cattered acro

graphic images. My body, or what was l

e coldness inside me deepened, a

the photos. He stared at it, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He picked

e muttered, shaking his head. "W

ce. "It was Ivonne. Your precious Ivonne. She killed your mother, a

. "You're lying! You're just trying to protect

then at Korey, his eyes wild wi

the words a twisted mantra. "She k

ng, microscopic speck of feeling I had for this m

ling over the scattered p

ned. A force that had always pulled me along wit

e was humming a song, an old lullaby my mother used to sing to me. A song

d, and he was st

mming

ispered, his v

tion, a trick of my spectral mind.

g right at me. Ri

hand and gave a s

me. After a year of being invisible, of be

could