Chapter 27: Ground Zero
Downtown Turtle Bay Reef
Mirar Street
Coconut Grove Apartments
Apartment 1-C
October 1, 20—
10:41 P.M.
You have to love what you do in your spare time to create a fun-filled and healthy life. In truth, I enjoyed standing among the thick palms at Matthew’s bedroom window, or what I had called Ground Zero. Hidden there, I studied his bedroom: a walnut dresser, battered settee, two mirrors, a closet with doors, and a stack of tattered paperbacks in one corner. His single window was closed and locked. I perceived the man’s air conditioner was on, which blew cold air over his naked body. The man’s tufts of blond hair over his forehead danced in the chilled breeze.
His body looked just as beautiful as Tommy Rawe’s: muscular and suntanned in the bedroom’s limited l
