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“What’s going on?” I hear a male voice ask. I peer around the corner to see one of Stace’s colleagues from the control tower.

“This fuckwit just jumped me and I found this on him.” Stace holds the syringe up and the guy takes it from him

Oh no, don’t trust him. Don’t trust him. Don’t give him the syringe.

“Fucking idiot.” He sighs. “We will put him in the lockup and deal with him tomorrow,” he replies dryly.

They grab an arm each and pick him up and half carry and half drag him up the stairs, no doubt to the lock up in the control tower.

I lean back against the wall and let out a deep breath. That was close.

An hour later I lie in the darkened room and I wonder who I am sleeping with.

He was cold and calculating tonight.

No remorse, no empathy.

No fear.

He smashed Stucco’s head on the floor until he was unconscious, I know how Stace’s story started out, but how does it end?

My mother told me that my father started out with petty crimes, and look what a monster he turned into. Is this
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