Taming the Bad Boy Was a Mistake novel · Chapter 10 of 24
Chapter 10: The Rematch
I didn't think.
I walked straight in with the thermos still in my hand.
"Let go of him."
Dane looked over his shoulder.
He smiled when he saw it was me.
"The warden. Good. You can take a message."
"Let go of him first."
He didn't.
The old man's glasses had fallen off.
They were on the concrete between Dane's boots.
"I've been very patient," Dane said. "Rainey thinks he can quit me, walk off my line, take his girl out for pancakes. Everybody's watching that. Everybody's watching me let it happen."
"It's three thousand dollars," I said. "You have a gold chain worth more than that."
He laughed.
"It's not about the money, sweetheart."
The back door of the garage banged open.
Jesse came in with a box of parts in his arms.
He saw the tools on the floor.
He saw the old man.
He saw me.
He put the box down very slowly.
Then he picked a wrench up off the floor.
A big one, as long as my forearm.
The room changed.
Dane let go of the old man and turned around.
He was still smiling, but his hands had come up a little.
"There he is," Dane said. "There's the old Rainey."
Jesse didn't say anything.
He walked across the garage with the wrench hanging from his hand.
The purple bar over his head was shaking.
Eighty-three.
Eighty-five.
[Host,] said the System, very fast. [Do something. Stop him. Grab him. Use the voice.]
I knew the voice.
The voice that said Jesse, put it down, right now.
He'd obey it.
He'd obeyed it for a year.
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