Sublime

23. Alpha and Omega

Emma Blake and her offer to accompany the detective, not for his sake, you suspect, but for her own. A desire not to be alone. You sense that she is shaken, unnerved, perhaps, by a premonition of the toll that decades at West Heart, living among these people, could exact on a woman’s spirit.

rask.

He could not decide if she was beautiful in spite of her monstrosity, or because of it.