Chapter 47: Rule Number Two—Murder Has ConsequencesCHAPTER 47
RULE NUMBER TWO:
MURDER HAS CONSEQUENCES
Hershey, Pennsylvania—20 Months Ago
I decided that night to get this over with quickly. Wasn’t going to wait and watch like I normally did. Tito wanted it rushed anyway. In the morning I checked to make sure the motel room was perfectly clean and wiped down. I hadn’t taken a shower, though I needed one badly, but a shower could leave hairs in the drain. I bundled the bedclothes and laid them on the floor. Once they were laundered, any of that evidence would be gone. I assured myself that this was my paranoia running wild. No one would even know I’d been here.
I got my case, went to the car, and drove to the back of the grocery store on the other side of the woods. I parked among the
