SEVEN
WITH HER WARES, TESS got the hell out of the area. Ditching Patrick and then Danny shaped a shameful pattern of behavior. Keeping people at a distance was necessary. For the protection of all parties.
Everyone was temporary.
Everyone except mother and daughter.
Now only daughter.
Tess returned home, got in the shower, and obsessed about the numbers. What did they mean? What did the names mean? Pandora, Hades, they were from Greek mythology. Everybody knew that. Were the names codes or keys to figuring out the numbers?
Her mind wouldn’t stop working at a thousand miles an hour. Time was against her too. Her clients and the nightclub had been understanding about her loss. They wouldn’t understand forever. At least, with regard to her own finances, the box money provided a cushion
