“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.
the tropics. Thunderstorms had a tendency to start at night and keep me awake with their fearsome and
populated, which made it even
so I thought to sit up for a bit. I attempted to pull myself into an
swung overly hard and had knocked the bottle of saline solution to the floor with a loud
of the disturbance, and Danny entered the
frowned at the mess on the floor
it up. She
at me and turned
I called
Stovall?” he spun around and
to know what is going on
“Ms. Stovall, you need to rest,” he said after
flung the glass of water onto the floor to get his attention. “If you are going to threaten Ashton with my life, you
with his eye on the broken shards of glass
I know you are not a native Venrian,” I said after a deep breath. “For whatever reason that landed you to be Abe’s associate, you must understand
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