I FELL INTO HIS TRAP
Cleavers, scimitars, and chef's knives, blades for boning, filleting, carving, slicing, and chopping.
"Before we were criminals, the Zajacs had a family trade. What we learned, we passed down. I can butcher a hog in forty-two minutes." He lifts up a long, slender knife, touching the ball of his thumb to the blade. Without any pressure at all, the skin parts, and a bead of blood wells up against the steel. "What do you think I could do to you in an hour?" he muses, looking up and down my stretched-out frame.
"Maybe you could explain what the fuck you want, for a start," I say. "This can't be about transit property."
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