Chapter 9

The apartment that Cam’s best friend, Paul Tarelli, had found for her was only one bedroom but just a few blocks from Patterson Park. It was a small, second-floor place; just a small living room with a kitchen alcove and the bedroom with a tiny bathroom. It didn’t measure up to the airy apartment she’d had before this all started; it had been in the Bolton Hill neighborhood where gentrification had turned old mansions and coach houses into expensive apartments.

It had been her home, but now that apartment was Pauly’s. It wasn’t a place that an out-of-work paroled ex-convict could afford. And even though she knew that there was money in that secret account, moving to a neighborhood that was suspected to be a channel for drugs was more important. Someday, she knew, there’d be time and money for a place that was much more safe and comfortable.