I couldn't smell the stink that came off of corpses yet. His body was still warm. Then I saw the photograph on the wall, and realized this was all my fault. I had called the man. He had confronted his wife. She had killed him. Zara was probably scarred for life like so many others I knew.
I told my partner, Officer Rohrbach, that I knew the girl and had an idea where she might be. We drove straight to the gym. As the senior officer, Rohrbach ordered me to go home. She said she would take care of it. Thankfully, I knew a way to make sure everything went right as someone other than Officer Grayson.
