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He stared at Harris He’d been gazed at by some of the sickest and most loathsome s Never had he been affected by a gaze fro about love

“I wish I had killed her,” he whispered “If she had to die, if I couldn’t prevent it, I wish it was ot to do it That way, I’d have theSo I wouldn’t ive a fuck about what happened to ot the last of her moments on this earth But someone took that from me”

Suddenly he didn’t look like a kid

Fuck, he didn’t look like a hu

He stood The screech of his chair along the floor was eye watering

“So between the two men Both had years on hi child It unnerved him to be stared at like that

“You’re wasting your ti your job, and if you’re good at it, you’ll figure out it wasn’tin my power to make sure I do your job better than you That I find the thief who took thein my world And then I’ll watch them take their last breath I’ll make sure it’s me who ends their life”

Harris knew that he was serious Knew that whatever goodness, innocence that one He was ahierous than the Don himself

Chapter Two

Twenty-Five Years Later

Sienna

He was staring at me

He had been staring at me