A V*rgin For The Three Mafia Bodyguards
I wanted a blunt instrument to knock my brain offline.
I sat in a dark corner booth and drank. One glass. Two glasses. Three. I kept drinking and drinking, tilting the cheap burning alcohol back until the sharp, irritating edges of my thoughts began to blur. I drank until I finally felt numb, until the calculation in my brain slowed down to a dull, manageable static.
By the time I stumbled back out to the Jeep, the sky had completely changed. It was late afternoon, turning into evening—the actual time when normal people started drinking, not when they finished.