As Rox lay on his side, he appeared to be asleep, but he was wide awake. He had waited for hours, it seemed, for Dezi to finally go to sleep, and now that he was, he slipped from beneath the blanket and began to dress. When he was ready to leave, he quickly scooted around looking for pen and paper, wrote a note to Dezi, and then picked up the keys to his car.
While the night wind blew in his face, he rounded curve after curve, climbed hills, and descended into valleys until he was finally pulling up into the circular drive of Nick Falconi’s magnificent mansion. As he got out of the car, he looked around for the groundskeeper’s cabin, and then remembered it was in the back. Recalling that awful day, something inside urged him to turn and run away, but he plodded onward, climbed the front s
