The floor rose toward me. Dante caught me before my knees struck the tile. I fought him with every fragment of strength left in my body.The floor rose toward me. Dante caught me before my knees struck the tile. I fought him with every fragment of strength left in my body.

by the hospital rather than one of his houses.
That mattered too.
He did not come inside until I permitted it.
By sunrise, Lily was sleeping in a borrowed crib beside my bed.
Mrs. Alvarez rested on the sofa with three stitches above her eyebrow.
Marco stood outside with two city officers.

Dante waited in the small kitchen.
He had changed into a clean white continue reading …