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“Ding-dong. They are dead, dead, and re-dead.”
She looked, but indeed the marks on their necks had gone purple or black, a sign their SINs had just gone off forever. She sighed. Eden didn’t like killing by any means. However, she knew all too well what an unforgiving world it was for those who trusted the wrong people.
Pushing her blonde hair back, she walked past the bodies to go to the dog. The poor female was still growling, cautious of Eden, but she didn’t have the energy to attack anyway. When Eden got closer, she began whining.
“It’s okay... It’s okay...”
As she caressed her for the first time, Eden felt her heart sink. From the injuries, she knew that dog wasn’t going to survive. Her front paws were sliced open, the bones showing. Eden’s soles were getting tainted by all the blood on the ground. She sighed and crouched down. The dog barked again faintly, but Eden wasn’t scared anyway. She frowned, looking at the dog’s belly.
“You... You had babies?”
She had noticed the female had gotten fatter lately, but she hadn’t realized the dog was actually pregnant.
“Eden!”
She turned her head. At the other end of the street, a young Hispanic man was standing there, out of breath and looking horrified. His sleeveless T-shirt was showing off his muscles and sweat. Eden frowned. She really didn’t need him to show up now.
“Madre de Dios, what the heck did you do!” he said, walking toward her, careful not to trip over the bodies.
“They were torturing her.”
“The dog? Eden, you just killed those men! What are you going to do if they send more here!”
She ignored him, looking back toward the mama dog.
“Lito, I think the dog’s nursing. Did she have her babies yet?”
“What...?”
He stared at her baffled, and his eyes fell on the dog. At a time like this, she was asking about the dog? He hesitated, glancing down at the stray. He grabbed the cross on his chest, but he had a sour face while checking her overall state.
“Yeah, maybe... Anyway, what happened? What are we going to do about... this?”
“Don’t worry, nobody will know.”
“Nobody? Eden, we have three fucking bodies here!”
“Shut up, Lito. Or are you going to shout that even louder, so all the neighbors hear it? Anyway, weren’t you ignoring me? Why are you talking so much now?”
He hesitated, but it was true. They hadn’t actually talked in ages. Although Lito and Eden lived in the same building, he had been avoiding her on purpose lately.
“I heard the gunshots... I was worried it was you.”
“Well, it was,” she replied, very calmly.
Eden kept caressing the dog, but she was looking around. He realized she was looking for the puppies. He sighed.
“She must have hidden them. Eden, they’re probably dead. Let’s go back inside...”
“You go back inside,” she retorted. “I’ll look.”
She got up and started rummaging through the mess of that back alley; Lito was frowning. Sometimes he couldn’t understand Eden. She was risking her life by being out there so long, and for what? To look for some dogs who were probably dead already?!
Yet Eden was stubborn like that. He watched her look in every nook and cranny of that trashy spot. She wasn’t afraid to turn over some trash bags, check under the dumpsters, or inside some empty boxes. Lito sighed and began looking around too. The faster they found those dogs, the faster they’d be back inside.
“Here!” she suddenly exclaimed. She was somewhat crouched down, and half of her body was pushed between two large piles of trash, but behind them, she had found the puppies. She stepped back, carrying two of them, one in each hand. They were whining and wriggling around in her grip.
“Is there more?”
