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Assail did not condone swearing In hissaid, he&039;d had a shitty fucking week

Down in the cellar of his house, in the vault, he and the twins had just finished organizing the haul for the last few days: Bills were stacked in bundles that had been through the counter, banded, and then sorted according to denomination - and the total was impressive, even by his standards

All told, they had about two hundred thousand dollars

The Fore-lesser and hisexcellent work

You&039;d think he&039;d be happy

Not so

In fact, he&039;d been ason of a bitch - and the reason for the bad humor just made him crankier

"Go to Benloise," he told the twins "Get the next batch of cocaine and come back here to separate it"

The tereit out into Baggies, and that was a good thing The slayers werethree times what had been sold before

"Then make the delivery" Assail checked his watch "It&039;s set for three a up from the table, he stretched his arms over his head and arched his back His body had been stiff lately, and he knehy: Being in a constant state of low-level arousal had tightened up theother physical aspectswhich had been utterly resistant to self-regulation

After years of not particularly caring for tending to his own erections, he&039;d fallen into a rut of pleasuring himself

And all it see

For the last week, he&039;d waited for Marisol to get in touch with hi, and not because soain The woman had wanted him as much as he had her, and surely that would lead to a reunion It had not, however And the fact that she had exhibited the kind of restraint he was struggling with, made him question not only his self-control, but his very sanity

Indeed, he feared he was going to crack before she did

Taking his leave, he went up the stairs and into the kitchen The first thing he did was go over to his phone, in case she had called or in the event that Audi of hers had finallyhad been parked in front of that house since he&039;d paid his visit, as if she mayhap knew he&039;d put a tracer on it

Checking the screen, he saw that someone had called him, but it was a number that was not in his contact list

And there was a voicesome human&039;sprotocol, he knew he had to listen to the e

As he accessed it, he walked in the direction of his hu too much coke Which was painfully counter-intuitive - if one was already twitchy and frustrated, adding stiasoline to a fire -

"Hola This is Sola&039;s grand to reachan Assailplease?" Assail stopped dead in theroom "Please callof dread, he cut the s -

"¿Hola?"

Indeed, he didn&039;t know her naht?"

"No, no - I am not I found your nu"

He gripped his iPhone hard "Tell one She caht after she arrived - I hear her go? Except all of her things, her backpack, her car, it is all here I was sleeping and I hear downstairs, so I call out her name and no one answered - then I hear this hard noise - loud sound - and so I come down The front door is open, and I fear she has been taken - I do no knohat to do She always told me, we do not call the police I do not know - "

"Shh, it is all right You did the correct thing I&039; directly"

Assail ran to the front door without bothering to coetting over to that little house as fast as he could

A second was all it took to dematerialize, and as he resuht that of all the scenarios he&039;d run through in his randmother reported, the Audi was parked on the street at the end of the ay Just where it had been But as of note? There was a scra the snow, the trail crossing the lawn to the street in a diagonal pattern

She&039;s been kidnapped, Assail thought

Godda up the squat steps, he hit the doorbell and stamped his feet The idea that someone had taken his female -

The door opened and the woman on the other side was visibly shaken And then she seemed further taken aback as she took him in with her eyes "You areAssail?"

"Yes Please let me in, madam, and I shall be of aid to you"

"You are not the man who came before"

"Not that you saw, madarandmother stepped aside, she lamented, "Oh, I do not knohere she is Mãe de Deus, she is gone, gone"