“Here it is.” Min smiled and spread an arm toward the front of the four-story, solid gray apartment building, her enthusiastic flourish making her purple pigtails bounce. Since I had the last interaction with Xervan he had been difficult to find while I had been searching around the entire city for the criminals on his list. And now I was in a different kind of predicament all over again. I needed to find a new place to stay very soon.
“Uh.” I’m sure there were better words to describe my first reaction to the monolithic poured-concrete structure, but they eluded me. The sign above the double glass doors read Paradise Cove. Hah. “You said your friend owns this?”
“And will give you a good deal on the rent, yes. He promised.”
“How good of a friend is it? And did he pick it up at the same
