“s**t!” The word flew out of his mouth on an exhale.
Christopher hadn’t expected to find a five-star hotel or a cute little apartment with roses and lilies planted along the walls, but this? This was far worse than he could have imagined.
“No wonder the detective was not so willing to come along,” Thomas said quietly as they cautiously stepped out of their car, into a world far removed from their side of the city with dilapidated, dirty buildings and cracked roads littered with every type of dirt imaginable. Not that Christopher would have been keen to give it a closer inspection.
Their arrival hadn’t gone unnoticed. They collected glares from every living being within sight, like vultures to dead prey. And they did indeed feel like prey, surrounded and outnumbered by all manner of dan
