The Man on Her Left

Pastrana?”

And I said: “I told him no, and I told him she’d caught her heel, and I asked him to get a luggage cart.”

“Why?”

And here is where I did the thing that Ruben Duran had told me forty times not to do, which is that I did not stop talking.

I said: “Because she asked me not to, and because I knew what an ambulance in Cleveland would mean, and I want to say the rest of it because I’ve thought about it for two years.

“Everything else I did in that job I can argue about.