Alex All of this was just getting more and more complicated, and my head still throbbed like somebody had taken a hammer to it. I rubbed my wrists where the ropes had cut in, watching Mark pace back and forth in that tiny room like a caged animal that hadn’t slept in days. His eyes looked wild, red-rimmed, and every few minutes he’d mutter something under his breath, like he was arguing with somebody who wasn’t even there. I figured it was the grief talking, but man, it was starting to freak me out how deep this ran for him.“Look, Mark,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady even though my hands wouldn’t stop shaking a little, “you gotta give me something here. You keep talking about Marcus like he was this saint who sacrificed everything, but from what you’re saying it sounds way more messed up than that. What really happened with you two? I mean, the last fight, the stuff he did for money… I want to know. Not just because you’re holding a knife on me, but because maybe it connect
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