My Loss

I saw Carroll sitting in the back seat. His smiling eyes, his cold jawline, and his Adam's apple... I felt sore in my nose, and tears welled up in my eyes. "Carroll, I almost got killed!" I threw myself into his arms and told him what had just happened. My snot and tears stained his clothes. His expression became grim after I finished my story. "Where is he?" Sniffing, I said in a sobbing voice, "Peter tied him up!" "Okay." Carroll frowned. "Peter finally did something good." "However, he let his apartments to those swindlers, and his tenant got a lot of money from scams!" I complained. I was not stupid. I could tell that that swindler knew Peter. According to what the swindler had said, it seemed every tenant in this building was a crook. Carroll stroked my hair. "The situation in this place is complicated, and the innocent like you are the targets for the crooks here." Thanks to Carroll, I now knew that Peter reserved this building for those people from shady businesses. Carroll had