The Don's Secret Twins novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Broken Keys
I didn't wake the twins.
I sat on the floor beside them until five, watching that video over and over with the sound off.
Nobody dead, the anchor said at four.
The night clerk cut by glass, twelve stitches.
Forty-one rounds into the lobby and the bar.
At seven Fia's father drove the twins to school in the brown Buick.
I didn't go with them.
"Go," Fia said, and pushed her car keys into my hand. "Go look at it. You'll make yourself sick if you don't."
Canal Street was taped off in yellow for half a block.
A cop at the tape knew my face from the news and lifted it for me without asking.
The gold doors were boarded with plywood.
Inside, the lobby crunched under my shoes.
Men in hotel uniforms were sweeping in long, slow lines across the marble.
The bar was worse.
The long mirror behind the bottles had come down in one sheet.
The brass lamps were bent.
The green walls were pocked with holes, a hundred little dark stars.
And in the corner, the baby grand.
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