Apartment of Horrors
Then, I said, "Maybe Edgar's death hit Tom hard. Tom used to get bullied, and in college, he'd try to please us out of habit. Edgar's the one who told him he didn't have to and treated him as an equal.
"After Edgar died, Tom holed up in his place, stopped going out, and wouldn't reply to anyone. I just saw Edgar's phone in his pocket. That message was from Tom."
It was only then that it hit me. When the officer pounded on my door with his face covered in blood, there was no malice in his eyes, only a plea for help.
As the banging died away and he slipped from the peephole, it was because he had bled out and dropped in front of my door. He was only moved into the stairwell later.
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