Chapter 6
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The next day, at just a few minutes past 7:00, Cole Barron knocked on Tarsha’s door. As he had climbed the stairs, he had made mental notes of all of the repairs that he wanted to see made to the building. His first step, he knew, was to evict the miscreants living in the apartment under hers. He could tell from his few visits to the building that they were loud and messy. Bags of trash stood outside their apartment door and an awful scent emanated from within.
He would have them gone the next day, he told himself. Besides, when Tarsha came to her senses about raising the baby in her apartment, he could expand it without having to move her closer to him. Though he had not been inside her apartment yet, he could tell how small it must be, shoved on one floor of that tiny old
