The Man in Apartment 14C

Mastermind - The Wrong Victim

1 The Man in Apartment 14C

Last night's rain still clung to Manhattan.

Mastermind - The Wrong Victim

It gathered in shallow seams along the curb, darkened the pavement, and left the sidewalks shining beneath a gray morning sky. Cars moved through the wet streets with the familiar impatience of people who had somewhere else to be. A bus groaned away from an intersection. A cab pulled from the curb before its passenger had fully closed the door. Somewhere nearby, a horn sounded once, then again, as if the second attempt might somehow improve traffic.