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Axe went through his oardrobe" of muscle shirts, black jeans, and the occasional leather jacket or cloak, although not because he expected a turtleneck to have miraculously appeared courtesy of the Look-More-Nor by It was h his father’s stuff

Ten minutes and no turtle-for-his-neck later, he was down the hall and opening the door With no lights on anywhere in the house, the shallow space was nothing but shadows and shades of gray … kind of like his self-hatred had sucked the color out of everything

He couldn’t even look at the bed, which was still messy froo, and he certainly didn’t spare all the pictures of his fucking lance, and no, he didn’t dwell on the layer of dust that covered everything or the fact that one of the s had sprung from its sash and let in fallen leaves and even some of the snow

It see in puffs of white

Maybe his father was haunting the place

As a shiver went down his spine, Axe s in it with rough, agitated hands He found what he was looking for in the botto had been worn and used by the male And as he shoved the drawer shut, and beat feet out of the rooain

Back in his own space, he stripped off hisover to the mirror above his cheap dresser, he leaned in andon his throat was covered up

Just before he turned away, he reached up and res that ran froe on the same side as his tattoos Also took out the one on his brow

Nexton a shoulder holster, he tucked the pair of forties he’d been given the week before into both sides The way the Brothers saw it, they were investing ti they needed was for anyone in the program to wake up dead because they had shit equipun range, the Glocks had been handed out--and although you were not per center, you sure as shit were expected to have ’em with you outside of it

And use theht before

Out of the house, didn’t bother to lock the door--after all, there was no electricity to power the alar under the roof

Hell, it’d be a relief if somebody broke in and lit the place on fire Not that that was likely He lived in the sticks; his nearest neighbor was a quarter of a mile away and probably took a donkey in to work

Axe knew before he even dematerialized to the interview location that the house--or e Even poor kids raised outside of the hu estates were, and the zip code the place was in?