The rain slicked streets of the meatpacking district stank of rust and lies. Wes Garner, once a police sketch artist, now traced missing faces for anyone who could pay. Tonight, it was a woman\u2014last seen stepping into a black sedan outside a shuttered slaughterhouse. Her husband swore she was taken. Wes knew better. The woman\u2019s eyes, drawn from a faded photo, looked too much like the ones he used to sketch on wanted posters.<\/p>\n
He found the sedan in a crumbling garage near the river. Inside, cigarette butts and perfume clung to the leather seats. A figure moved in the shadows\u2014her. Alive. But not kidnapped. She smirked. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe sent you?\u201d she exhaled smoke. \u201cShould\u2019ve sent a man who doesn\u2019t already know.\u201d <\/p>\n
Wes had seen it before. A second life, a second chance. He\u2019d once thought he could start over too. It never stuck. <\/p>\n
Outside, headlights flashed. The husband. A gun. <\/p>\n
Wes sighed. Some people never quit chasing ghosts. Or drawing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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