short struggle

Will hadn’t intended to frighten me. He just wanted to find his wife.
“I know it’s frustrating,” I told him, “but it’s the best way to find out something we didn’t know before.”
“We’ve been through the whole building,” he snapped. “The most we’ve got is a neighbor a couple of floors up
who heard a thump.”
“Which tells us there wasn’t much of a fight,” I said, “or they’d have probably heard it. Fights are loud, Will,
even when only one person is fighting. A building like this, everyone knows it when the neighbor beats his wife.”
“Somebody should have heard her scream.”
“Maybe it wasn’t as loud as you thought. It was right in your ear. And it upset you. If it ended quickly enough, it
might not even have woken anyone up.”


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