“I don’t have many hobbies of my own,” Armond said when I did not answer. “I just enjoy watching people fulfill their promises to me. Since you had already promised me, it was only natural for me to come and claim it.”
That seemed like a far-fetched reason to me.
“What about my arm?” I asked, determined to change the subject.
A bullet went through it. You’re d*mned lucky to be alive after all of it.
“It’s nothing,” Armond said. “Just rest up well. You’ll be fine, just not able to lift heavy objects is all.”
I pursed my lips at that but nodded.
A scuffle of footsteps outside made me panic, thinking it was Abe, but it was only the nurse here to change my medication.
I had a lot more questions for Armond, but he seemed to be reluctant to discuss them with me. With several more reticent answers, he took his leave.
Armond’s relationship with Abe is more complex than I had first imagined.
After some hot soup, I fell back asleep.
had a tendency to start at night and keep me awake with their fearsome and savage
which made it
I thought to sit up for a bit. I attempted to
have swung overly hard and had knocked the bottle of saline solution to the floor with a loud
at the sound of the disturbance, and Danny entered the
the mess on the floor and turned
who promptly cleaned it up. She relayed
at me
I called out
Ms. Stovall?” he spun around
to know what is going
reluctance. “Ms. Stovall, you need
you are going to threaten Ashton with my life, you should at least do me the courtesy of telling me
said, with his eye on the broken shards of glass
said after a deep breath. “For whatever reason that landed you to be Abe’s associate, you must understand that after all the illegal things that you’ve done, you have your punishment
a simpleton. Meanwhile, the nurse returned and cleaned up
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