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We stare into each other’s eyes for a short but tenseelse I want to say, about Dina, but I’m afraid I’m afraid because lance down at the floor again, but only for a fleeting ardless of howto Nora, do you?"

He says nothing

"What she said is true, isn’t it?" I go on,to tell her anything because your organization is more important to you than I a shift in his green-blue eyes, so so faint that I can’t decipher I want it to be disbelief, heartbreak, so and unfounded But I’ No words No answer of any kind, which to

I storone, and leave Victor standing there

I sit alone outside on the roof of the five-story building, looking down at the city streets; very few cars weaving through theht out ahead has been red for five reen just sitting there patiently So unlike rily by now and flipped the ca about the irony

The night air is cool, but not cold A gentle breeze brushes through h it’s not et I don’t knohy I never thought to coe of stress inI don’t knohat time it is anymore because I left my phone in the surveillance rooht of it pressing down onDina fro back to when I first decided I wanted this life I could’ve just stayed with her and lived as normal as anyone else, but I chose a path that, even if by soer Dina doesn’t deserve this But I was selfish and wasn’t thinking about anyone but myself when I chose this life It doesn’t matter that I didn’t know she’d be in harreen and the car slowly rolls through the intersection I watch it until the brake lights blink out when it slips behind a nearby building

"It’s a nice night," I hear James Woodard say from somewhere behind me

I don’t respond and I don’t look at his drawn up bent at the knees, my arms wrapped loosely around them, my back in a hunched position

Jaht so he doesn’t fall over The sne passes me on a breeze

"I wanted to tell you what Sarah and Ann-Marie had to say I was startin’ to think you’d run off somewhere Couldn’t find you and no one knehere you were"

"What did they say?" I ask, deadpanned "Your daughters?"