Chapter 5
The truth is, I wanted the case. I’ve only had a single goal in life since all this happened, and that goal is to get revenge on Father. Or to “bring him to justice,” as they say. I had played it down to Bruce because I didn’t want him to understand, but the reality was that the Ultima Thule was always more than just a stick-up crew.
It didn’t start out as the Double Bolt either. The Double Bolt joined up with it later, when Father was recruiting his foot soldiers. The UT was much older, and had gone under a variety of different names. By the time I met her, when both of us were squatting in an abandoned hospital, Jackie had already been in it for years.
Father and Mother had actually sent her, dispatched her to the city I lived in at the time to serve as their cat’s paw. The
