Noreen was waiting too, and she was waiting eagerly.
After walking out of the police station and tasting freedom again, she felt like a completely new person.
Gerardo's death had been a brutal wake-up call about how fragile life was. Maybe someone else had to pay the price for the life she wanted.
She was done sitting around waiting for someone to hand her happiness. She was going to go out and grab it herself.
Besides, even her parents, the ones who had once loved and spoiled her were now either dead or behind bars, and it was all because of her choices.
Standing in the vast, hollow silence of the Huck family living room, she clutched her phone, pacing back and forth like a caged animal.
She waited from dawn until the light began to fade, but Alex never showed.
Just as she was about to give up in frustration, she heard a faint, scraping sound at the door.
She flung it open and found Alex standing there, looking disheveled and rough.
