Chapter 44:// Dropping in
“Hey!” Leo said and walked inside with broad steps.
The man arose slowly, his turban somehow exaggerating the turning of his head.
He stared at Leo with his scary, white-glass eye.
“Hey?” the man asked. “This is how you address a man, disrupting his prayers?” His voice was deep, smooth and accented.
Leo had not made a good entrance but he had to keep the momentum going, now that he had found the guts to step inside. Pausing to think would mean thinking over the danger he was in, would mean running back out screaming, would mean life in prison. “I’m in no mood for games. You framed me for the mayor’s murder and sent your cobra to kill me in my cell. Why?”
The Sikh smiled and showed his teeth. “Because someone had to get framed.”
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