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me. ¡°See, Wrench doesn¡¯t have time for a cute little whore to sit on his dick right now.
We¡¯ve got more important things going on.¡±
¡°I¡ I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re talking about.¡±
¡°Good,¡± he said. ¡°Better to be in the dark. Don¡¯t need some bitch snitching to the cops
about what we do.¡±
He took a drag from his cigarette. I noticed a colored tattoo on his chest poking from
his loose-fitting tank top, looking like a red and white target with an arrow sticking in the
bullseye. ¡°Point of this, Samantha, is that you need to stay away from Wrench. I¡¯ll leave it
up to your imagination to wonder what¡¯ll happen if you don¡¯t. Understand?¡±
I gulped and swallowed before nodding my head.
¡°I want to hear you say it,¡± he told me, raising his finger. ¡°Say, ¡®I¡¯ll leave Isaac alone¡¯.¡±
¡°I¡¯ll¡ I¡¯ll¡ leave Isaac alone.¡±
¡°Good girl,¡± he said. ¡°Nice and obedient. I hope it stays that way.¡±
He flicked his cigarette onto my dad¡¯s grass and turned his back to me, walking down
the driveway. ¡°Sweet dreams, Samantha.¡±
With tears welling in my eyes and my teeth chattering, all my limbs numb with fear, I
watched him turn down the sidewalk. I stood there for at least five minutes, trying to
soothe myself from hyperventilating, scared that if I moved, he¡¯d jump from the shadows.
In the distance, a motor that sounded like Isaac¡¯s bike revved and drove out of earshot.
Once my muscles relaxed enough to move, I scurried into my dad¡¯s grass and picked
up the cigarette butt before running inside.
Chapter Nine
Wrench
It was nearly four in the morning by the time I pulled back up to the dim Tavern to see
most of the gang¡¯s bikes already there. ¡°Fuck,¡± I said inside my truck, gripping the wheel.
A nervous sweat had been dripping down my neck as soon as I dropped Samantha off, at
being dragged back into this nightmare after such a nice dream.
All Tank did over the phone was yell at me for missing something big but didn¡¯t
explain anything. Whatever it was, I knew it must have been bad. Something was
unsettling about Tank¡¯s voice and it made me not eager to run inside. Fucking horrible
