The icy hand of winter, in the possession of the city under control. A stiff north wind roared the throat of the cycle before it explodes into the vastness of Lake Michigan. In the center of the storm, ran a rusty Ford Escort north on Lake Shore Drive. The car has to try Sarah Riley with the controls, a little 'more heat from the device move played. The departure from the heater, she turned her thin blond ponytail without looking nervously through the rearview mirrorMirror.
Twenty minutes before, Sarah has a small South Side Office Legal left. Anyone who watched would have his face red with fear, saw a bleeding wound under her eyes.
Twenty-eight years, Sarah, a teacher for six years. Small and a bit "was built, is very popular with his students in fifth grade, and colleagues. Not a threat is the use of different words to describe. Now it goes through... What?
And "the story of Sarah. Firstly, I am his brother JackRiley, and it is my job here is, as I said the grand jury. Just because I drive a truck for the city does not mean that I can not repeat what Sarah told me, word for word. I went to Loyola, he spent four years in the horse, I'm sorry, the U.S. Marine Corps. E 'began two weeks ago.
Saturday evening, sitting at home reading Hemingway's "A Farwell to Arms" is, Sarah is absorbed by the problems of Henry and Catherine, when the phone rings. Cousin Kate, the victim of a car accident is sought,save. Despite his concerns about hunting in Naperville, on the night of snow, Sarah dutifully wore his coat and goes into the storm.
With a silent prayer, he began his old car and drove west on 95th Street, the Tri-State Tollway. Chicago sleeps under a blanket of snow. Top of the north ramp slips on the car to keep a sharp left turn until the tires get their grip on the icy road again. The rest of the trip was when Sarah peaceful confused it comes to the EisenhowerExpressway, which after a few miles on the highway Regan. Take the exit at Winfield Road Regan, Sarah is an immediate right into the parking lot of a large shopping center. Spotting Martini Bar, one of which called Kate, scanning the lot for his car. It can not, however, his cousin, dark blue Mercedes. Facilitate a parking lot, Sarah takes her phone and called Kate. The phone rang four times before the cheerful voice of Kate plays his greeting. Three other experimentsthe same result.
Unlock the belt and to unpack the parka, Sarah goes into the cold night. With the head down, she begins to go to the bar. Three meters from the door, his hand tightly in his arms from behind. Wheeling Around, Sarah comes face to face with a man with a black wool coat and black leather gloves, face. One hand still firmly on his arm. "Are you Sarah," he asks.
Sarah studies responded to him. E "at least six feet high and seemsAge. Her hair is blowing in the wind, black, blue-eyed gaze. "Yes, it's Sarah," she says. "May I ask who you are?
"Listen, I know it's weird, my name is Stan. I'm looking for Kate. You have the right cousin? Let's talk." said, pointing to the counter.
They do not know what to do, can put themselves in Sarah. A gust of hot air and the noise of the input by Stan opens the door. Maneuver through the crowd, they found two empty chairs at the bar."Order what you want," said Stan. "I'll be back soon."
Remove the jacket, Sarah sits down and orders a cup of coffee. The bartender seemed a little "fun." It is a martini bar, and you want some coffee? "He asked.
"Okay, let me a Cosmopolitan, but light on alcohol," says Sarah. The bartender winks his eyes and after a few minutes with the glass.
"Here, love, light on alcohol. Something for your friend?
"Oh, that's not my friend, he comes ..."Sarah drew me here to think. "He orders, leading to his return."
After the bartender scans Sarah leaves the room by his cousin. The bar was busy with business people staying in one of the many hotel-like, the toll in this part of town. Wondering where Stan is gone.
Later, twenty minutes, and a Cosmo begins to doubt that Stan comes back. Sara scattered empty glass in his hand. Looking at his clock, he decides to leave him when hethat occur within five minutes. His discomfort with the disappearance of Kate begins to chew.
"I look at you. I bet you never thought you'd spend the night sitting alone." Sarah looks a little surprised to thirty men with thick glasses. Wearing a T-shirt houndstooth sport coat and open-necked blue. Her blond hair fell on the ears. "Excuse me," he stutters.
"Oh come on, a sexy babe, how you have come here, they do not believe that buying hisBeverages. "
"I do not know what you mean?
"I want to play hard to get does not always work. Listen, I know I was there. Chicks more than I can count, but there is always room for another."
"Listen, you're not very nice, maybe you should go," says Sarah.
"Wow, look, I'm sorry. You are a part of my homework tonight. My name is David."
"Homework, I'm not sure.
David falls onto the chair next to Sarah. "You see, I went to this seminar, asWomen face. Buy the book too. The task this week is approaching the ten women in one night and start a conversation. They are number two. "
"Oh, my. Duties?"
"Yeah. See approach will speak as the dissonant harmony. You create attraction, breaking balls by a woman. Uh, so."
"Well, David is very interesting, but I ..."
"You know that guy here with you?
"I'm not here with him. We are looking for someone."
"What a beautifulred? "David, he asks." She used to be with you. It seems as if your friend two days ago. "
"This is not my friend. What appear red?
"Like I said, beautiful blue eyes, medium height, wearing a suit. As a lawyer or something. Do not tell me the time of the day. I'm not counting it as part of my duties, I can tell you."
"They have the name?" Asked Sarah.
"The man shouted something. It seemed CatMaybe. "
"Perhaps Kate, by chance?
"Yes, I think. As I said, it was cold."
Sarah David looked silently for a moment, until he sees Stan his way through the crowd. Stan is approached, see David, saying: "Get lost, loser."
David on Windows and disappeared into the crowd. Sarah turns to Stan, as he sits. "Have you Kate?"
"No, I have begun to sour, but you know that your cousin and herMood. Well, what is "he looks at his clock, almost eight hours, and it's snowing outside as hell. Where this is crazy? We ought to have a drink after work, to be fair."
"Stan, I thought you met her."
"No, I did not. Why, what do you know?
"They just told me to get them. I drove all the way from the city. You must know more than me. We have to call the police?
Stan shook his proposal. "And Tell'em what?" Your cousin is a bitch, weis a night of shit? "
"Please do not call his name," says Sara. "And if something goes wrong?" I can not on his phone. "
"If she was angry she did not respond. Believe me, I know."
"What must we do?"
"I do not know, as you know, Sarah, but I'll have a drink and head back home to have. Traffic Gonna be brutal not. Froh driving in the city. If you asked me back you loser boy is desired, propose I imagine that you take the road. Stan motioned to the bartendermore vodka and controls vertically.
"Where were you during the last twenty minutes? Ask Sarah.
"None of your business."
"Why did you move here?" I thought I wanted to talk. "
"Hey Sarah, I dragged him here, I can draw again. Get lost and leave me nothing to drink. Remember we've ever met."
"But ..."
Suddenly, Stan Eddy and Sarah grabbed her shoulder. He turns his wrist and shoots his arm pain. Slowly, he said: "Go away and forget that you have never met.The message now, or should I be honest?
Breathless, Sarah slipped out of his seat and Stan break grip. Do not look back, walk towards the door. In a corner bar, he sees David talking to a bored a business woman with short hair and black. For a moment their eyes lock. Handshake, we stumble to the door and into the night.
The next morning awoke with a headache Sarah. On his cell phone on the bedside table at home quadrant Kate. No answer. Next,He wrote his phone number once again the home of the message.
Struck by a wave of dizziness when she gets out of bed, Sarah is placed on the bedside table. Not a big drinker, you feel the breath of Cosmopolitan on the previous day. Looking at the clock, she believes it is too late for the church. Sarah decides to take a shower and get ready for the day.
When Sarah goes out of the shower, you see his cell phone. The screen shows "One New Voice Mail". Picking Up ThePhone and press contains the number of one-button. Pushing back the wet hair from her face, wait until the message starts. Sarah jumps a heart beat when he hears the voice of Kate.
"Hi Cuz," Kate said cheerfully, "I am sorry, you call last night. I started my car and I could walk. I spoke to Stan this morning, I realized the two of you together took a sip. I must jealous? Call me when you get a second. "
Sarah started her phone on the bed and sits down.She held her head in her hands, she tried to develop a series of recent events. Nothing makes sense. To access the phone, Sarah connects to the voicemail. This time, she discovers that the time of the call, fifteen minutes before. Then check the list of received calls. Kate placed the call from the code 630 in the suburbs of DuPage County. Naperville Kate thinks.
Hold the phone in the room she used for an office, Sarah is sitting at his computer and performs a reverse lookupNumber. Seconds later, heard his findings Telephone Stanley Haas. This is Stan met last night? Curious, Sarah is a Google search. The first search returns too many results, if you feel constricted Stanley Haas to Chicago to reach. This is a manageable twenty blows.
The first is a three-year old history of the Chicago Tribune. According to the Trib, Stanley Haas is a developer of fraud investors S-shopping center to have. ThenMonitoring Read the story in the Daily Herald. In the history of the Miami Herald, DuPage prosecutor Tom Franklin said the charges against Stanley Haas have been abandoned because several witnesses withdraw their stories. At the bottom of the page are two pictures. The first shows Franklin Haas seconds. Sarah shake hands when he acknowledged that Stan Haas will be the night before. The results PR pieces remained in projects in which Stan is involved.
Why, asks Sarah, who wouldCousin Stan Haas react? Integrity of an attorney is impeccable. Something has brought together the two. Watch more pictures of Sarah at Stan's, a chill ran over my arm.
Monday afternoon that Sarah has left the school, his phone rang. A compromise between a stack of books on his car, reached into her bag and leaves the phone. "Hello Sarah and David, we met at the Martini Bar on Saturday night."
Shocked, Sarah asks him how he had his number.
"Oh yes,Well, I had Stan, who has your cousin Kate.
Well, what do you want? Sarah snaps. She was surprised by the tone of his voice, but this is absurd.
"I have a message from Stan. He said stay of affairs of your cousin."
"Why?"
"I, uh, I do not know. That is all," he said. But hey, listen, why do not Haggins "with Kate about what we say ... "
Sarah slams the phone is closed. Following on from her books, she throws them in the backseat of the car. Sessionin the driver's seat, turned the key. The engine produces a dry cough and throw black smoke from the exhaust. Turn the key, red lights illuminate the dashboard, but no more.
Fighting back tears, Sarah closes her eyes and lays his head on the wheel. She has not noticed the black Mercedes rolled to his side until the driver gets out and hits on her window. With a jerk, Sarah opened her eyes and looks up to Kate.
When you open the door, pulls KateSarah from the car and into an embrace. Then Kate says she on her hand and looked at her face. "Why are you crying?" He asked. "Is that your car?
"Yes."
Kate saw the rusty Ford, "I think he's dead."
"My car?
"No," said Kate. "Animal Farm, I think he's dead." Come on, hop in my car and we will repair it.
Sarah salt in Mercedes, and Kate was at the wheel. "Look Cuz, do not mind if we stop before the care of theirCar? Then, before you the key, Kate snaps her fingers. "Your car is unlocked?
"Yes, but it's good, I have the keys.
Kate takes her cell phone. I would trade my car club. I'll make a new battery in your car. You can pay later. How does it sound?
"It's so beautiful, but not ..."
"Do not be silly," said Kate. "What are you cousins? Go scoot and put the key under the doormat when I invited. I left the car to your home.When Sarah is back to Kate's car, his cousin, the conclusion of the call to the club Kate puts it on the line and see Sarah. "Remember, right Stan? The boys drink and flirt with the night of Saturday."
"Kate, No, it was not so. I was looking for you. I remember you called me?"
"Oh," Kate made a gesture with his hand. "Stan and I had to fight. It may be what is the word. Ah yes, a tear. I'm sure you enjoyed it. I wouldjealous?
Sarah shakes her head slowly. Kate looks up and smiles. "Good. You do not interfere with a man like Stan.
"What do you think a guy like Stan? Churches Sarah.
"Well, this is sometimes not very nice. We get just right."
The school is on the way Sarah 111 and Vincennes Avenue. Traffic in the early afternoon, Kate is soon down to position 103 Street and the hill to Western Avenue. In the west, south, turn one kilometers before reaching l 'Parking lot of a building with three offices.
Sarah tries to build understanding. "How long do you think we are? Questions.
"That could be a little bit." I told the car club bring the car here, if you're bored. Stan, I sign the documents, and he is not satisfied with them. "
"What kind of paper? Churches Sarah.
"Believe me cuz you do not want to know. Do me a favor, though. Fee Act of thing. No matter what happens." Without waitingThen Kate left the car and entered the building. Sarah returned. Ride the elevator to the top floor, in silence. When the doors open, the two cousins in an office down the hall.
Stan is waiting in the dark corridor. Occurs after Sarah and Kate, Stan goes to the door and lock. In a bank of switches, Stan is the light. It seems Kate and Sarah.
"Who do we have Kate, your sister?"
"Stan, do not be an idiot. YouI remember Sarah Saturday evening. "
As Stan the eyes down, Sarah nervously pulls her coat around her. Ashamed to wear a blouse and a simple denim skirt, while Kate and Stan in costumes expensive city. Stan licks his lips. "Oh, yes, I remember. Sarah How ya doin '?"
Sarah swallows to be found before his voice. "Very good," he said softly.
Sarah denied the conversation turns to Kate. "What is very important that you look me in the right hand sidenow?
Sarah Kate movements with his eyes. "Stan did not discuss why, in his office?
"I have someone there, so let them take care of now. I'm sure little Sarah will say anything." He turns to his face: "You do not care about me and you?" Sarah shakes her head. "You see, Kate, so good." Whatcha got?
Kate takes a look at Sarah and said, "Why not see if the car outside." The sound of a backfire parking lot on the third floor."It seems that the car is there now. Make sure that everything goes well."
Sarah turns to open the door, but do not move on. She sees Stan. He smiled and shook his keys. "You know, I'm on the Little Sarah," said Stan. Why not stay simple. "Sarah looks at Kate, but just shrugged his shoulders and opened his briefcase.
Cleared his throat, his hands Kate a bunch of standard paper. "Stan prosecutor has decided to go ahead and pursue the allegation of fraudthree years ago. The judge allowing evidence of, uh, lack of witnesses as evidence presented. I know it's unusual, but according to my contacts several other witnesses were brought forward. "
"This is bullshit!" Stan cries. "There are no other witnesses. Who are these people, you have a list?
"In these documents, which I have just given."
Stan weapons through the records until it is on the list. "Great, I can handle these people when I saw the last game did not."It seems difficult to Kate and Sarah. Sarah tries to withdraw into a corner.
"Stan is not going to threaten witnesses," says Kate.
"Kate both know that I speak a little threatening," more people. "
Sarah sighed. Kate seems he forgot that he was in the room. Return To Stan said: "I am an officer of the court not to forget. When I think that the damage in May came to a witness, I need to know."
Kate bluffing, and when you seeReaction Stan knows that bluffing does not work. Damn, he thinks. If only Sarah was not there. Kate thought it would cease to bring something to do Stan rash. Now it seems the presence of Sarah to have the opposite effect.
"Now is not that we have a real dilemma for us here," said Stan. "All this shit is would be a justice, do not buy it. We still have the lawyer-client privilege. I think the problem is that little Sarah do not go out to the shooting of his mouth." ItProposals for Sarah: "Come here."
Sarah Wells in the corner. She tries to speak out but not a word. Kate steps up to her. Stop Stan. "Reuse Scaring him. Let them go and find something."
Stan shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, Kate is a bit" too late. "He reaches behind him in a workbook, and you shoot a Glock 9 mm." C'mere Sarah, said he raised the gun and fire exits.
Sarah Kate steps ahead, asGlock jumps into the hands of Stan's. The capture of flies in front of them and break the blockade. Stan regulates its target, and tears second shot in the chest by Kate. Well, one of the adrenal glands, the fires Stan third shot went wide of the mark range. Ensure Breeze with the ball, the wall on the right side of the head of Sarah hits. In the small room, the ball-chip fills the air like a bullet. Sarah hits a little bit below the left eye. A fragment of the jumps and big gains in the throat of the Stan's. WithHe groans reached for the wound. Red arterial blood covering his hand when he walks. Sarah watches stunned silence as Stan glides slowly to the ground.
Hands slippery with sweat, Sarah grabbed the door handle, hoping that it will open. The material is broken ball in his hand. Staggers out of the office and on the floor. When the door closes behind her, saw David running for the physical integrity of Stan.
This is what Sarah told me. After has received, the documentationat Rush University Medical Center Wheels surgery. Of course, I do not know that Sarah tell anyone what happens next. Everything is at sign, the police District Five. But here is what happened.
Sarah ran to her car. The new battery, the correct old engine start. He led from Western Avenue to 103 Street. When he learned of Racine, was Highway north of Dan Ryan. Hey, I have no idea where he was runnin 'on. I only know what route he takes. TheyI went to 35th Street as if it were a game for the White Sox. The policeman known as a bus driver, saw his shot on the side of a street lamp at the bottom of the ramp. From there he heads to Lake Shore Drive.
What he has done, I think, is trying to head into the net. Worked as a summer intern outta the police station on State Street. He never did. It seems that David was after the time when he left the building by Stan.
David was not good with women. It "became aDriver worse. The Idiot Sarah caught a few blocks south of Soldier Field. But Dennis fled with his car and drove off a bridge on 18th Street. He shot a few times before stopping. According to police, the car from David, she jumped on Sarah Escort and went through two traffic lanes in front of the T-bone with the bus. It was not enough to Moron in a shoebox.
So, what else is a cousin died, and operates his sister. Personally, Kate and mehas never been so close. So it is what it is. My mother went to Mass every day to pray for the recovery of Sarah.
I prayed that Stan rots in hell.





