Cost: The Book Of David

It was 2 AM. The usual suspects had already moved on. They knew where they were going the moment Lauren died.

Jon had shown them the way five years earlier. Keith had gone before that.

The narcissistic system doesn't grieve - it reorganizes.

And there I was. Still here.

COST is what remains when the system reveals itself in the presence of death - when those who claimed to love you disappear the moment you are no longer useful.

Three cardinals. Three witnesses who left before the report was fini...