Chapter 57 – Tension

• Christian just waves his hand. “The girl is a nobody,” he says, his voice calm – even bored. “Just a stripper – that computer wiz, he had money for a minute. And expensive tastes, if you know what I mean.”
• A little chuckle goes around the table as I straighten and start to walk away, going slower than I perhaps normally would but not slow enough for anyone to notice, not really.
• “She couldn’t have just known nothing,” the old man protests, even as he laughs. “I mean, I know those pretty girls don’t have a thought in their head, but…”