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Or Shaw becomes less predictable when I’m in the mix, distracting Cole,

forcing him to make decisions against his best interests.

We’re entering the endgame now. Am I a valuable asset—a queen to his

king? Or only a pawn that Cole can’t bear to sacrifice?

I keep waiting for guilt to overwhelm me.

The people Cole killed before were faceless avatars to me. I never met any of

them. Most seemed to deserve what they got.

Randall is different.

I knew him. We sat at the same table. Ate the same food. I knew his favorite

sports teams, the names of his sons. Which movies he liked, and even what

he sounded like grunting and puffing as he fucked my mother.

I hated the intimacy between us, but it was there. I knew him as human, as a

man.

And I watched him die.

Should I be sorry for him?

I felt some pity last night, in the moment. Seeing his graying hair and his

wretched begging.

But because I know Randall, I’m well aware how little goodness lived inside

of him. I can’t remember a single instance of kindness to me. Not one, not

even when I was very small. Whatever he gave, he gave grudgingly. Angrily.

Always rubbing it in my face afterward, lording it over me.

He was a petty tyrant.

Does anyone care when the tyrant’s head is put on a spike on the city gates?

Does anyone shed a tear?

I’m certainly not crying.

In fact, as I rise from the bed, I feel clean and whole. A little bit lighter, as if I

shed off a weight I didn’t even know I was carrying.

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