The Pretty Woman Who Lived Next Door by Preston Pairo

Author:Preston Pairo [Pairo, Preston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maryland Locale, Ltd.
Published: 2019-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

24.

Monday after school, Miles and Juan went back to the Concrete Palace, where Miles had been teaching karate to Juan’s friends.

Inside the sparsely-equipped gym, the usual upbeat Latino music blared from a boom box. The same unpolished boxers sparred in the makeshift rings. Juan’s guys sat on the worn mats, chatting and laughing, getting up now that Juan and Miles were there, exchanging handshakes with that loose, easy way about them.

There wasn’t any indication of change since last Thursday when they were all last together. Still, Miles scanned the other guys’ faces and what skin was left exposed by their ragged sweats and t-shirts, looking for cuts, scratches, or bruises. Once they started working out, he watched for a limp or grimace that might give away an injury or soreness, the way he’d checked for those same indications in Juan throughout the day. Looking for hints any of them may have been in a fight—but not seeing anything so far.

The only difference about today was that Diego, who’d graduated from Germantown High last year, wasn’t there. And no one knew where he was.

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