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Chase. Seeing him,

married and

moved on,

stuffed me with pain.

It throbs, stabs.

But that isn’t so bad.

At least I know I’m

still alive.

Alive and Throbbing

I’ve formulated a plan.

First I put in a call to Cesar, who tells

me to stop by anytime.

Code words for There’s plenty around.

Next we have to sell what

little is left in the lockbox. I put Trey

on that. Anyone but Angela

is fair game. He’d better leave that ho

alone or start packing.

I stash a couple of pipes

full, just in case everything goes to shit.

I mean more to shit. I’ve

avoided doing what I’m going to do,

because if we screw this up,

we’ll have Mexican Mafia on our ass.

Not a good thing. No, not

at all. So I guess the message is:

Do not screw this up!

Trey returns with a couple

hundred bucks and we head for Fernley.

León lets us out of the car,