i. I Tre Motivi

There were three reasons why Desmond Kindall burned down Walter Whitman’s house and murdered him.

1. He hated him and he hated the way he looked at his mother�"a married man with lust in his heart for a woman that wasn’t his wife, for a woman he didn’t share a child with. He hated him and the way he smelled because who the f**k smokes so many cigars that they smell like a goddamn wannabe classy ashtray? He especially hated how Walter called him “a no good, low life son of a b***h.” Because no one calls his mother a b***h.

2. Who the f**k has a name like Walter Whitman? The W.W. on the banker’s goddamn keychain really irked him.

3. He wanted to watch Walter’s life go down in flames, him trapped inside.



And there’s one reason why Desmond Kindall stayed around to watch.

1. Valentine “Valen” Whitman�"Walter’s precious daughter, the one that cried the most when daddy died in a sudden house fire.