Chapter 235

• The security team arrived in twenty minutes, and they didn't fuck around. All this was completely foreign to me. They interviewed us. They examined the security footage from the incident and the days before. They put up additional cameras and changed the passcodes on our locks. When night fell, they traded places with what I could only describe as a paramilitary team, which camped out on the property and told us to stay in for the night.
• So we did what anyone might do under the circumstances. We got drunk. Kat passed out, followed by Jess. I carried them to bed. I couldn't sleep. The adrenaline was too much. Rita stayed up with me. I could feel the fatigue in her body, but her eyes betrayed fear.
• "It's going to be okay, sweetheart," I said.