Courtney had thought Melinda was rich, but this was wealth of a different order. The house looked like a palace, with a huge central portico supported...by fluted Corinthian columns. Additional wings extended to the left and right. Amelia took one of Courtney's hands and Sigrid the other, and led her into the house.Behind them, Melinda and Brooke exchanged glances. It was rumored that the Fazio money came from organized crime, and the gaudy opulence of the estate tended to confirm their. “I’ve got her! You did it Angel! You did it!”Don began to work quickly wiping the crying baby off with the towel in his bag. He then tied off the umbilical cord and realized Angel wasn’t quite finished yet. “Baby, I need one last push from you.”“Why?” gasped Angel, exhausted from the childbirth.“Just trust me, it will be quick and easy. One last push baby, please.”Angel pushed as Don asked and he pulled the afterbirth from her, then cut the umbilical cord. Blood gushed all around them. Angel. "We can use one of the other rooms." No, it's okay," Ken replied.The walls of the stairway seemed to throb and constrict before him, closing like the gullet of a great beast. Come on, he thought, it's only stairs leading down to a converted cellar, not some gothic dungeon at the dark centre of the world.Actually, there might be a dungeon down there, he thought with wry humour. It could be that kind of place.He looked at the walls. They were covered in lurid pink and darker pink striped. “If nothing else, try to get her to agree that if we have a suspect, she will at least look at a line-up for us.”“I’ll do that,” Claire said. “Now what do you guys have that’s new?”Tyler spoke first, “It’s taken a while, but my contact at the DMV was able to verify that only 151 Corvette Grand Sport convertibles were manufactured in 2017. We have requested information on all those purchases from General Motors and should have it by the end of the day. The DMV only has identified fifteen.