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“Is there a point to this , and if Zajac is going to kill o ahead and do it already “A in the dirty water?”

“No!” he snaps, eyes on o, ants to think their city is clean You’re the person who eats the bacon, thinking you’re better than the man who butchered it”

I sigh, trying to pretend to be interested, while actually scanning the roo for soto twist the my skin off—it’s hard to tell

Zajac is doneHe cuts off my suit jacket and shirt with a dozen quick slashes Parts of the sleeves still hang offfroh that he could have done that without touchinghis knife

He presses the point against the lower right-hand side of my abdomen

“Do you knohat’s right there?” he says

I don’t want to play this game with him

“No,” I say

“Your appendix A little three-and-a-half-inch tube of tissue, extending froial for the ht to prominence when it becomes infected or inflamed I don’t see any laparoscopy scars, so I assume yours is still intact”

I stay stubbornly silent, refusing to play along

The Butcher rests the flat of the blade on the palm of his hand “I had intended to wait until after the election for this, but you had toupto do The Gallos are going to return the money they stole from my casino”

I don’t kno ot, but I hope it was a fuck ton of cash

“You’re going to sell me the transit property, at a steep discount”

Nope Also not happening

“And you’re going to provide overnment position of my choice, after your election”