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“Leave Me Alone” Her voice slices through the silence inside the car on the speaker

“No fucking way, Bambina I can’t I’d rather die than live another day without you”

She chokes out a laugh “Yeah, or maybe you’d rather I die instead, huh?”

“What are you talking about? Has someone threatened you, Esme? Because if they have, they just breathed their last breath and they don’t even know it I will chase the bone in their body”

“Sure I saw you, Vito I saw you with that guy frohtnever mind, doesn’t matter, I don’t want to think about it I don’t want to think about the two of you co notes and—”

I sla Salvatore I should have put it together, but she said she went to a restaurant to interview, not a seedy office in the back of a warehouse Still, I should have asked more questions

The cab speeds up to get through traffic lights before they change to red, and I follow suit, running through the next light, but I don’t care I’ her

“Don’t act like you don’t know, Vito You, hiuy from your house yesterday You all looked pretty da to be a hostess job, but of course, all of you were planning to draw irl, or did you look for me specifically? Did I fit some sick bastard’s requirements or—”

“Es to do with any of this We used to be in business together Used to I severed ties with hiirls I always said that wasties, that’s all”

“Sure, of course, you did, I’ullible”

I grab the handwritten agreeainst the windshield “This is an agreement It’s a kind of contract between Salvatore and ive up all claiives up any clai was about We settled everything I don’t know those girls Truth is, I was fucking pissed when they showed up and sat down Fucking Sal disrespecting me is what that was, as his final fuck you”