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"Borden?" Emma pressed from behind him

"The ones at the top are always the worst, Emma," he simply told her as he opened the door "But you already knew that"

He glanced at her over his shoulder right before he stepped out

The i her face in her hands haunted him

The man was in bad shape before they’d even knocked hiun over to Borden It was a nice gun, a Heckler and Koch USP, certainly not cheap He told Borden he was likely in his fifties, in good health, and dressed in a nice looking suit

"Definitely not a druggie," he explained, baffled "But you could tell he’s had a lot to drink"

They’d transported him into one of Borden’s abandoned warehouses miles out of the city on an isolated bit of land He hadn’t been in this location for a very long time He should have known it was only aat hiazed at the rey hair He was on his knees, hands tied behind his back, staring off into space like he’d already un, and he walked to where the ly re hi"

Borden stopped in front of him, and the reen eyes, his blood ran cold instantly His whole body seized up, and his breath felt like it’d been knocked out of hi

He blinked hard, trying to grasp reality Borden could see so much of her in this man, which meant…

The man chuckled sardonically "What’s the host"

Borden took an unbalanced step back, blinking rapidly at Kate’s father "I don’t understand"

"You understand perfectly," he retorted

Borden took a few breaths "You shouldn’t have done this, Doug"

"I should just let you live then? You killedwill bury the past It will always find you, Marcus, and it will "

"No, you need to pay with your blood You don’t deserve to live You’re a irl would have still been alive had you never returned! Our lives are broken Forever and always!"

"And as a bullet to ? Make it better?"

"Maybe Maybe not I don’t fucking care either I can’t be in this world knowing you’re still breathing the same air as me when it should be her! They should have come after you! Why didn’t they come after you?!"