McHugh lay farther up the road, as if he’d tried to run. He had the classic look of a strangulation victim: bulging face, protruding tongue, petechial hemorrhages on his skin and in his eyes, and the broken-doll tilt to his neck. His eyes were wide, and his hands seemed to be reaching for his stomach, where Ian had taken a shard of glass and sliced him from crotch to collarbone, then reached inside and pulled. Yanked anything he touched. There was more of McHugh on the roadway than inside him.

