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Cardiff was silent and une in the air

His black-haired friend hadhis face a dark shade of red “This ain’t got shit to do with me, man”

“Who are you?”

Jack was dead, and I knew Cardiff and Butch, which

“The name is Rizzo Mark Rizzo, but everyone calls me Rizz”

“And Richard, where is he?” He had to be here somewhere

“Behind you, asshole” His words came first, followed by the press of cold et the fuck out of here?”

I smiled “That’s your first mistake Dick”

“Yeah? What’s that?” Amusement colored his voice

“You talk too fucking uys always did

He pressed the gun into h talk froun to his head”

“And that’s your second problem” I took a step forward and turned on un froht between his eyes

“Don’t tell a man what you plan to do That shit’s only in er, and the still warm blood splattered on my face a moment before his body collapsed to the floor

“Oh shit, what the fuck! What the fuck, man?” Rizz trembled with fear and disbelief

Butch took a step forward, and Virgil made his presence known “Take another step and join your friend in hell”

Butch froze mid-step and nodded

Cardiff folded his arrunted his disapproval “You’ve made your point”

I laughed “I haven’t even startedand grinned “Butch is the reason for this I want you all to remember that Okay?”

Rizz nodded first, sending a hard glare at his friend Cardiff nodded reluctantly, and Butch notched his chin high in defiance “That bitch is the reason for this”

I nodded and turned back to Cardiff “That makes this easier for all of us, I think”

“What?”

“What happens next, obviously” I hadn’t fully decided what I would do until this moet to survive the day, and it won’t be Butch”

“Noait just a goddail right behind hi, and deadly