The Power
Later I lay in bed but I didn’t sleep.
Cesare didn’t believe Jack would do this.
Gardena became outraged at my even suggesting it.
Jon — his own twin — knew nothing whatsoever about it.
Was Jack Diamond even involved at all?
Had I been part of framing an innocent man?
Not innocent, I thought. Jack Diamond had been implicated in dozens of murders, the victims tortured, mutilated. He had the worst reputation possible, as horrifying as that of Roy Spadros himself. Perhaps even more so.
Surely some of what was said about Jack was true. And he’d threatened me more than once, in front of witnesses.
Yet here I am, in Diamond Manor.
Jon won’t let Jack harm me, I thought. The shooting kept repeating in my mind. The hole in the Spadros man’s neck. The spray of blood.
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