nda'
this time of the year as winter approached. But today it was dark and gloomy. Residents had shut themselves indoors, windo
and. His hand went to his pistol at his hip h
ere they had been last spo
f them." The owner of the bakery, a mi
anything strange
e. "No, nothing at all. They bought their
ll on his gun. I gently tapped his hand and motione
round more. And if you notice anything m
lit up with a smile. Just as we tu
! Oh dear me, my mem
n my chest. "What was it
n the bike, he followed the of
d it look like?"
oung man, it was big
"Thank you, ma'am,
em. They're our regular and
do our best." We bade
nand said once we were
bike on the
ed it. We'll have
ed to see a boy running up to us. His eyes held fear. He ra
he matter?
"T-the kids! They found something in th
hanged a tense look
kyard of a shop. The place was clustered up with bags of trash and broken furniture. But that wasn'
ontaine here. Wha
fear I had seen on the boy's face. She pointed a
ed over to the
I did my best to move them all out of there. My heart th
eadquarters. Our eyes met
ren't m
y called
wirled my straw in my glass of mojito, toying with the mint leaves insdie. I had drank half of it and
our, eyes dull and glassy. I could still see the flies that swarmed around their b
n't clean. Same with their toes. There were signs of strangulation, and rope marks all over their bodi
vered fingers and
icide. This was targeted. This w
ross a dead body in this line of work, it doesn't make it any ea
once. I turned to them a
el. She and Ferdinand had been together since high school, and they were inseparable. She also kn
hard to believe they're gone
Ferdinand said with a sigh. "FBI has
eyes, a silent warning not to continue. I pretended I didn't see it. "It