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"Did they die?" she asked, horrified

"One died The other girl lived Lived and worked for me for a few months"

"Sam?"

"She told me what happened to her at that caone to his ca she said There’s a thirty-two-year-old man in Queens who still has the burn scars frosley had realized Sa she’d told hi the truth The man with the burns hadn’t wanted to talk to hisley pro he could to keep Fuller froh a lawsuit he’d filed against Fuller and the church seeking restitution for his massive therapy and medical bills The man hadn’t had sex in five years because he couldn’t bear to let anyone see the burns on his genitals

"He’s not a sley said "I know a ht be on our side But Fuller, he’s a deerous And I don’t want hiie said "I can’t say I want him or his church in my town, either"

"What about Irina?"

"They’ve ‘lost’ her paperwork INS is as bad as the health depart a wrench into everything I try to do"

"You got her out of jail That was a good start"

"Getting the charges dropped again was easy They don’t have any evidence Keeping her fro sent back to Russia will be the hard part Especially since she’d been twice arrested She doesn’t ht her, abused her, and she put eye drops in his drink so he’d be too ill to rape her one night and that’s not sy She was You kno the world works, King"

"I know I don’t want to know, but I know" He made a decision then and there, and he spoke it aloud before he lost his courage "I can’t let Irina be deported I’ll call Fuller I’ll tell hiie asked

He wasn’t, but he didn’t knohat else to do He could survive without the M&ouainst him for tax code violations But he’d made Irina a promise to take care of her, and he would keep it

"I’m sure," he said He sat back and put his boot on the chair across from him

Then he kicked the chair so hard it flew ten feet across the floor