It was the peak of school dismissal, and many parents had arrived in their cars to pick up their children from No. 1 Middle School, clogging the area with a multitude of vehicles.
Frowning, Nathalie Quinlan pulled out her earphones from her bag and put them on, ready to return City Hospital's phone call as she navigated through the crowd.
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a black Phaeton parked unobtrusively in a corner across the street.
Amadeus Yancey was leaning lazily against the car, the streetlight casting a hazy glow on his strikingly handsome face. The man's deep-set eyes and thin, brightly colored lips held a cigarette, while his black shirt sleeves were rolled up, revealing crimson Buddhist beads around his wrist bone.
Despite parking far away, he stood out like a crane amongst chickens, quite eye-catching.
Nathalie no longer felt like walking over to him.