Chapter 13
“Jackson! Jackson, no, you can’t! Stop it!”
“She’s right, Jacksonie boy, it’s gonna burn like hell and you know it. Come on back inside, will ya? I still don’t know what the f**k is going on, but I know my partner burning up in the setting sun ain’t gonna do anybody a lick of good.”
“He’s right, come back! Please, Jackson, don’t leave me!”
That last was almost enough to make him stop and do exactly as he was being asked. Not that it would have been good for Scarlett if he had. If he’d gone back inside of The Blood, he would have throttled her until he twisted her head straight off of her body, her Final Death delivered without flourish or fanfare.
Delbert Green should count himself lucky, too. Any desire to keep up good business ties was out of Jackson’s mind completely. Ja
