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I just witnessed a mob hit. The lighter flicks like the sound of a gunshot. Smoke from his cigarette slips through the cracks of my hiding place. His dark chuckle haunts future nightmares I’ll never get to have.

Please walk away. Please.

The sound of a zipper...and then his voice: “Faith Jacobson. 580 Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn.”

He’s got my wallet. My driver’s license. He knows who I am. It’s over for me. He flings open the lid of the dumpster. The nearby streetlight illuminates me, and suddenly he decides I’m not dying tonight.

No, I am now to become a gift... to his even deadlier brother.

I just became the property of Leo Raspallo.