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“Al Capone died before the ‘50s”

“Notpoint, Ethan!”

“I figured you didn’t know—”

“Of course, I didn’t know My daughter was gone They could have nuked the state, and I still wouldn’t have noticed If I had noticed, I wouldn’t have spentjelly donuts!”

“They looked very well done—”

“Ethan!”

“What? Are you going to listen to ? Or would you like to yell a bit more”

“No, I want to yell a bitofficial day back in Chicago, not even a full day And so far, I’ve been shot at—”

“It was more the house than you—”

“And a city that has always been fucked, has been double fucked by you,” I went on, ignoring hi to think “This why you were hesitating…you kneould be harder to move since you already infected the city with cops”

He was silent, allowing me to rant

As I did, I slowly put everything together

Openingat his house now? They shouldn’t want to get caught by cops either…they were doing it to prove they control the city and they would only think to do it if they felt they had the power

“You blas on the Rocha cartel,” I whispered

Again, he didn’t say anything