Piper glances over her shoulder at Kreshnik’s dead body and immediately looks away. “Can we… can we go somewhere else? There’s so much blood. It’s… Oh God, it’s everywhere. It’s on Benjamin, too.”
Her voice is growing frantic, the words rushing out of her. Carefully, I pluck Benjamin from her arms.
“There’s an employee locker room. There are showers. We can clean up there.”
Her chin is wobbling with the effort not to cry. “Okay. Okay, we can… Yeah, it’s okay. I’m okay.”
“No, you’re not,” I repeat, pulling her tightly against my chest. “But you will be.”
The locker room is at the end of the secret hallway and through another hidden door. This is the first time I’ve navigated these secret tunnels, but I know the layout of the rest of the building well enough to be able to reverse engine
