Could this be Mark's company? But how? He’s not Cross. Oh, no. Cross was his mother's surname. Mark's actual last name is a complicated Polish one I never even learned to spell right. No wonder I never heard of him before he reappeared on Christmas. He'd changed his name.
"What shady past?" Sam asks and that's exactly what I want to know too. "You mean the deals with the cartels? That's been done to death in his case, and he's always come up clean."
"No, it’s more recent and juicier than that," Lucy muses. "One of his rivals was found stabbed about a month ago. And Cross was also questioned in the murder of that escort, the one that was found tied to a tree with her throat slit."
My heart's beating so fast, the room's starting to turn dark at the edges. I'd heard of this. It was a grues
