Chapter 99 The Help She Needs

• Stepping away from Eloise and turning on the shower, letting hot steam fill the room, he motions for her to move away from the door and into a walk-in closet at the back of the bathroom.
• He closes the doors behind them and turns on the tiny light. She doesn’t know why, but she doesn’t feel nervous with Pat, maybe because he reminds her of the guys back at the house—big but kind.
• “Look, Eloise, I’m not a bad person. I never asked to work for the Cartel. I was just born into this life. My father was a runner for cocaine when he met my mother and got her pregnant. The trouble was, when she found out who my father was, she tried to leave him. They only let her live until I was born.”