anging echoed t

" Faron's voice roar

gement, open this door immediately, or we will breach the lo

crambled across the carpet and picked up her black dress. It was ripped s

oke the man

vy duvet aside and sat up. His broad chest and

aught the leg of the velvet sofa. Sh

ing, and entirely awake. He did not look panicked. He reached over to the nigh

r beeped. A green light flashed. The

dress shirt draped over the back of the sofa. She grabbed it and shoved h

ely reached her mid-thigh, acting

barefoot across the plush

ny door was push

e, muscular shoulder to slam against t

e floor-to-ceiling windows. She unlatche

ttan whipped into the heated room

. She stepped onto the cold, rusted iron g

ve his head through the gap in the d

. His expression was absol

camera with a long lens, trying to

lens and shoved it downward with brutal force

the investigator physically stepped back. They did not know exactly who was in the shad

hat name," Buren said. His

oor shut and eng

fast it hurt her chest. She gripped the freezing i

er palms. She bit her lower lip so hard she

o the alley was broken. She looked down. There was a larg

a breath

lammed into the solid surface. A sharp, blindin

olled off the dumpster and

nue. A yellow taxi was passing by

Ina threw herself into the b

He stared at the disheveled woman wearing

ping her arms around her sh

partment building in Tribeca. Ina threw a crumple

shower to the hottest setting, and stood under the spray. She scrubbed her skin until it w

towel around her body. She sto

ble counter. The white dress shi

icked it up. She look

te fabric with dark navy th

rcuited. A loud ring

Buren

st slept with a stranger. She had slept with