Chapter 7Monday, June 14, 2010
Delron looked around the dirty room he was about to rent. He’d spent three weeks in a sort of hostel—not that he wasn’t grateful for the police helping him out when he had nowhere to go, but a probation hostel was not a place he wanted to spend any more time than was necessary. Seeing the state of this room made him think he didn’t particularly want to spend any time here, either.
“Rent is to be paid on the twenty-seventh of each month, and you have to pay three months in advance.”
“Three?” They hadn’t said anything about paying in advance.
The stern-looking woman snorted. “Yes, three. If you don’t have the money we’ll rent it out to someone else.”
“I have the money, and I will take it.” He didn’t know what to call it. It could hardly qualify as a flat,
