The Don's Fatal Tenderness novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Street's for Walking
The rain came down harder, and Dirk stayed on his knees in it.
Mourners filled the funeral home doorway behind me.
On the sidewalk, a television reporter had her microphone out, and the foreman and his mechanics stood in a loose line along the curb.
"Everyone has left me," Dirk said.
His sandy hair was plastered to his forehead, and his voice cracked in the middle.
"The party dropped me an hour ago, and my campaign manager quit by text."
"Delphine took our daughter and went to the family room at the back of the funeral home."
"I have nobody."
I stood under the awning with my arms crossed.
"I'm listening," I said.
"Tell the cameras I never knew about the fire."
He looked past me, at the lens.
"Tell them Aldo used me, that I was a coward and not a criminal."
"You know me, Pamela. You know I'd never hurt anyone."
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