Blood of the Earth
“Seems they hadn’t heard about the guns and the damage. Or didn’t care.
It wasn’t quite as fancy as the suite in the other hotel, but at least it wasn’t all shot up either. Sweet Pea’s was packed with a weekend lunch crowd, so we stopped at a mom-and-pop pizza place and picked up four large pies on the way to the hotel. Pies. Not pizzas. I was learning how the unit spoke, the jargon they shared. I was beginning to think that they were pizza addicts.
The team was on the fifth floor, and h...ad taken three rooms, the one in the middle with a large seating area for group sessions. The overpowering scent of pizza filled the suite as JoJo opened the top box and dug in while Rick passed around colas. Everyone ate in the kind of silence that was dedicated to appeasing hunger. The moment he was finished with his part of the pie, Rick dried grease off his hands and said, “Update. I’ll go first. As of three hours ago, the family of Girl Four received a ransom demand and proof of life.MoreLess
It wasn’t quite as fancy as the suite in the other hotel, but at least it wasn’t all shot up either. Sweet Pea’s was packed with a weekend lunch crowd, so we stopped at a mom-and-pop pizza place and picked up four large pies on the way to the hotel. Pies. Not pizzas. I was learning how the unit spoke, the jargon they shared. I was beginning to think that they were pizza addicts.
The team was on the fifth floor, and h...ad taken three rooms, the one in the middle with a large seating area for group sessions. The overpowering scent of pizza filled the suite as JoJo opened the top box and dug in while Rick passed around colas. Everyone ate in the kind of silence that was dedicated to appeasing hunger. The moment he was finished with his part of the pie, Rick dried grease off his hands and said, “Update. I’ll go first. As of three hours ago, the family of Girl Four received a ransom demand and proof of life.MoreLess
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