“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.
tropics. Thunderstorms had a tendency to start at night
was sparsely populated, which made it even spookier during
way of falling asleep, so I thought to sit up for a bit. I attempted to pull
swung overly hard and had knocked the bottle of saline solution to
the sound of
the mess on the floor and turned to
nurse who promptly cleaned it up. She relayed some instructions in broken English
at me and turned to
I
Stovall?” he spun around
to know what is
you need to rest,” he said
the floor to get his attention. “If you are going to threaten Ashton with my life, you should at least do me the courtesy of telling me why. I just want to understand what my death is
was unhappy. “Ms. Stovall, you should treasure life!” he said, with his eye on the broken shards
landed you to be Abe’s associate, you must understand that after all the illegal things
looked at me with amusement like I was a simpleton. Meanwhile, the nurse returned
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