I got up early that morning, Hal was supposed to drive me to meet a client that wanted to see me before leaving the city. I got dressed and put some makeup on and was waiting for him to come and pick me up. As minutes started to turn into hours, I started to feel uncomfortable. The meeting was long gone by then, but I did not care that much about it. Hal was never late to a meeting and that unsettled me. I started to worry something might have happened to him and started calling every girl that was under his protection. Nothing came out of it. No one had heard from him since the day before that. I had last seen him the night before when he dropped me off at my place after a party I was invited to. I was sure that something bad had happened when the clock was getting close to eleven in the
