BURNED EMPIRE
"What if he just disappears and we never hear from him again."
"Then we go in with what we have," I said. "It won't be as strong. But it won't be nothing either."
At six, my phone buzzed. A text, no name attached, just a number I recognized from four hours earlier.
“I'll do it. Tell Priya to add me to the witness list. I'm done being afraid of a woman who had a girl killed and let someone else take the blame for it.”
I read it twice before showing it to Camila. She read it once, put her hand over her mouth, and didn't say anything for a long moment.