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“Man, we had nothing to do hatever Henry was into,” one guy rambled, hands in front of him

“We just help him occasionally,” the other man cried

“Oh holy fuck Please don’t kill us”

Arlo looked right at un at the guy to the right and kept the other one trained on the ers and shot them both perfectly in the head It all happened in a o so sloas like wading through water

Three bodies now slureen felt,from his nerves

The scent of blood filling the rooup until I could reain

“Let her go,” Arlo said and aiood shot, but how good of one when I was being used as a shield?

“Put the gun down and let ht in this,” my coward father mumbled from behind

My father had his arun at Arlo as he started slowly backing up, one arot shot, it was o or she dies”

“You’d shoot your daughter to save your own ass?” Arlo asked cal far enough back that my father wasn’t spooked any more than he already was

“She’s nothing to me”

And wasn't that the truth Nothing but a bargaining tool Nothing but someone to sell to be raped and tortured just so his debts could be paid I’d neverto him, and that’s hen he rounded the corner with ht uard at first, his hold loosening e to twist in his hold, turn sharply, and bring roin