Chapter 243

Dante stepped out of the cab into the evening’s fading light, the narrow street outside Dario’s house casting long shadows. The air carried the faint sting of gunpowder mixed with the damp chill of dusk.

Yellow police tape fluttered across the yard, tangled in bushes and draped over the broken gate, its edges frayed and snapping in the breeze. The police had just left, their cars’ taillights disap