The Price of Silence (chap 4-6)
edit 1: typos, tense change
Catch up:
Chapters 1-3
4
I find the housemaid shot dead in the street two days later.
She'd taken the young girl to a safehouse. That was the hope, at least. But when I saw her beaten, bloodied body in an alley across from the hospital, all hope diminished. She's tucked into the fetal position, like a child curling up on the floor to brace for blows from a belt. The blood that once oozed from the bullet hole in her temple is now frozen.