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“Do you see my dilemma? You screwed me, Raymond, and the sad fact of the matter is that I have to unscrew myself And, as you well know, there is only one way to do that”

“But I’m out of it”

Perrine peered at him

“Look around you, Rayood at it, too The looks, the street smarts, the LA char plans for you But that was then Any last words?”

Ray’s face slackened with an al to die now?! Just like that!?

“I, uh I, uh,” he said

“He choice I, uh, what? I, uh, therefore I am?” Manuel asked

The thugs began giggling A heavy blow to his kidney knocked him to his knees There was a shriek, and then duct tape was smeared hard over his mouth and ears

Ray stared down at the carpet, half unconscious with terror He was unresisting as his shoes, socks, shirt, shorts, and finally his underere stripped from his body

He had been adopted That hy he’d been so excited about beco about their biological parents, talked about how brave they were for abandoning their own flesh and blood, but not hi to show the to attach his kid to himself, hold the tiny, brand-new huo

Only now he never would

A hand grabbed his hair, pulled hi his throat Ray pinched his crying eyes shut as bright white caht torched his face

“This is what happens to those who stand in the way of Los Salvajes!” Manuel screaht ear

CHAPTER 63

PARKER AND I DECIDED to er Stadium murder dropped