The Revenge Of The Boss
One night, after a beating—Jamal had refused to pass drugs to a guard—Vito passed a piece of clean cloth through the bars to staunch the bleeding.
“Why?” Jamal asked, his voice cracking.
“Because you're the only one who hasn't betrayed me,” Vito said. “And because, perhaps, God is using you to remind me that I'm still a man.”
It wasn't friendship.It was something harder, purer.
Two exiles on a cursed island. One white, one black. One Sicilian, one Nigerian. Both ate shit, slept on concrete, and stared at the same sea that had swallowed them.
One morning, during exercise time, Vito stopped in the center of the courtyard. The sun was a blade. Jamal was beside him.
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