Chapter 2 Revenge against who, you might ask? No, not against Jackie, although that would be a perfectly reasonable assumption to make. The thing is, I didn’t blame her. It wasn’t that I was still in love with her. She had thoroughly killed that, along with everything else in my life. But she’d been broken long ago, a long time before I even met her. Broken deliberately so they could rebuild her the way they wanted her, a remorseless fanatic they could use as a tool. It hadn’t worked out quite the way they intended. She didn’t just kill my partner Duffy. She also stole all the cash, drugs and jewelry the gang had accumulated over a period of five years of bank robberies, home invasions and armored-car hold-ups. More than enough for her to get away, make a new life somewhere the Ultima Th