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I shrug "James is very nice too"

"He’s insane They all say he’s insane He went off that first year to do his killing and he caed behind repair"

"Do you knohat happened?" I bite my lip, not really sure if I want to know or not

"Everyone knohat happened"

"Everyone but me"

He’s silent as he mixes up the batter, his motions unhurried and deliberate Like he’s made a lot of waffles in his life and he knows just what to do There’s no recipe either He just threw sos in a bowl

"Will you tell me?"

"Do you really want to know?" He looks over his shoulder again "I should tell you Then e your mind about him and settle for this life instead"

"Do you want et you" He finishes hisaround to face me "But it’s not fair to take you It’s not fair to you, and it’s not fair to me, and it’s not fair to our future children"

God He’s handsome I can’t deny it He’s so e my mind if I knehat happened to him I think it would make me love him more"

"Huh," Vincent says as he crosses his arms in front of his chest "I doubt that"

"Tell me, then Maybe this is your chance to win aze is like steel Cold and hard He doesn’t look like theto win me these past few days He looks like I’ve pushed hi point Like this confrontation with his o James Fenici went on a mission to Central America and never came back"

"He came back He just came back later than expected"

But Vincent shakes his head "No James never came back Tet came back"

"He’s not two people, Vincent He’s just Jaht He’s just Tet James died in that Honduran prison They starved him Deprived him of water Of basic facilities They locked hih to stretch out and not tall enough to stand up And when it becaet hih he was the son of one of the most powerful elite members, they made him a slave and tortured hiet ot One as his mentor One The same man who tried to kill you last week is the e debt to owe Do you understand that?"