Chapter 63

Aithusa’s POV

In this job I've seen it over and over, a corpse is a corpse unless someone who loved them enters the room. That's when the atmosphere changes, when the clean up crew starts to feel the trauma. Mostly they deal with it later in macabre humour - the hit and run victim is "roadkill" and the stabbing victim is a "pin cushion." It isn't that they don't care, more that they have to find a way to do their job and still function as spouses and parents...

I went directly to the crime scene as Mac had told me. He had said that this was no a scene that everyone could tolerate, so I had to be pretty strong enough internally to take on the scene and then begin my investigation. I already knew who or what had done this crime, and even though I had no lead on how they were on earth when they should be in the bowels of hell being torn apart for eternity by hell hounds. But I was not going to tell