Faced with my slew of questions, he replied, “I’ve been well. But how do you know Brandon?”
“Do you know him too?” I asked, surprised.
He nodded. “Yeah, Dante works with him. I’ve met him a couple of times. They operate in the black market, so why are you meeting him? Are you sick?”
I shook my head urgently. “No, I’m not sick. But my daughter is.”
Shocked, he said, “I see. It’s better to steer clear of them if you can, though. If you get involved in the black market, it’s hard to get them off your record.”
understand his warning but
say, I spoke up again. “Since you’re here, shall we grab a bite
head. “No, I have other things to do. I’ll be
was ready to leave, I called out to stop him.
helped me in the past. If you have any questions for me, you should ask them
me. I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d underestimated the complexity of our
are you doing in
know what happened to Mr. Langston. As for my job in A
frowned. “But
gotta do to survive. A City isn’t a good place to make a living for us
to that. I couldn’t deny the truth in his words. We are but slaves to the money that
there’s money, you can carry out a perfect crime?”
at my question. A moment later, he said, “You should go home. It’s not
ask but he’d
then Armond is really engaged in shady dealings. I couldn’t imagine the number
in a dilemma. If I pursued this to the end, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to accept the consequence. After all, I was a willing participant in an illegal deal, and losses and gains always came hand-in-hand. My decision to seek out Amy in the countryside was entirely due to my wish to
to harm a perfectly healthy child to keep his daughter alive. It’s hard to pin the blame on anyone, but someone was undeniably killed in the
sort out these dilemmas alone. I called Ashton when I was in the car. The phone rang for a while before he answered. I could hear his clear voice through
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