“Hey, Bill,” I said. “I take it you heard about what happened at my building?”
“I did, Mike, but that’s not why I called,” Bill said. “I don’t know how to tell you this. I just got off the phone with NYPD Homicide. Tara’s dead. They just found her.”
I sat up.
“No, no, no,” I said.
“They must have gotten her on the street on her way to work, Mike,” Bill said, sniffling. “She was taken to a motel in the Bronx, and God, Mike, they tore her apart. They found her head floating in the bathtub.”
I closed my eyes and let out a breath.
“Perrine did it himself, too,” Bedford said. “They have him on the motel’s security video waltzing through the door with a big grin on his face. He’s not human. That fucker isn’t human.”
“No, he isn’t,” I agreed as my mind spun.
“I’m so sorry, Mike,” Bill said.
He sounded completely wrecked. I thought about Tara at the St. Regis, how she’d said I’d saved her.
“Me too, Bill,” I said after a bit. “Thanks for calling. It couldn’t have been easy.”
Mary Catherine stirred beside me.
“What is it, Mike? What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” I said, looking back at my kids, then out at the fields, up at the sky.
“It’s okay,” I lied as I fought panic and tears. “Go back to sleep, Mary Catherine. Everything is going to be fine.”
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