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“I don’t need forgiveness,” she whispers, squeezing the trigger.
Jerry’s one eye stays open. The life that had been there seconds before, now gone. His stare completely blank. The dirt underneath him darkens as his blood seeps out from the fresh wound on the side of his head.
She stays stone still, breathing hard, staring at what’s left of Jerry’s head with wild excitement.
“Oh, yeah?” I ask. “Everyone seeks forgiveness sooner or later, Princess. Why not you?” I hold out my hand for my gun, she hands it over. It’s still warm.
She turns to face me and shrugs. “Because, I’m not sorry.”
“Good, that’s the first lesson,” I say, suddenly turning my gun on Mugs and pulling the trigger in quick succession. Three bullets explode into his chest, sending him teetering back over the hole’s edge until he falls backward into it, his body joining Jerry’s.
What I forgot to tell the now very dead Mugs was that Bear knew he’d raped the girl first before Jerry had taken his turn. My job wasn’t to return one body to the dirt tonight, but two.
“What’s the second lesson?” Rage asks, staring at the gun as I change the clip.
“The second lesson, is that in order to survive you are loyal to no one. You are on nobody’s side except your own.” I holster the gun and look her in the eye to make sure she understands exactly what I’m getting at. “You got that?”
Rage nods. “Yes, loyal to no one,” she says, adding, “What about you?”
I laugh. This fucking kid.
“No one, kid." I look over to the bodies in the dirt then back to her. "Especially not me.”
