Epilogue
Colt
Iwatch the water drip from the sink, in my six by eight prison cell. There is no window, just a bed, a toilette and a sink. The brick walls surrounding me are bare and the steel barred door has been tightly shut and locked form the outside for the last twenty-three hours. Someone should come and get me any minute now for my daily hour out of this hole. This has been my daily routine for the last year and will be my routine for the rest of my life. The hatred for this world and everybody in it grows every day, some days I think it will consume me. Other days I think it already has.
I can hear footsteps approaching from afar. As always, the footsteps are accompanied by the rattling of a large keychain. The noise abruptly stops in front of my cell door. Click, click, the door opens slowly with a loud squeak revealing a prison guard holding a pair of handcuffs on the other side.
“Cuff up Inmate, you have a visitor.”
What the hell? I don’t get visitors. They better not deduct this from my hour rec-time. I turn around and let the guard cuff me, then he leads me through the prison, to the visitor area I have never been to before. He brings me to a private room and cuffs me to the table. Someone is already sitting at the waiting for me. Someone I only know because he used to be one of my best customers.
“What the hell are you doing here Coleman?”
He smiles at my dryly and looks me straight in the eyes when he talks.
“Well, I’m here to get you out of this shit hole.”
“And why would you do that?”
“You ever heard the expression ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’?”
I nod as realization strikes me. I know where he is going with this now.
“It looks like your old pals Jaxon, Hunter and Elisa having a great life out there while you rot away in here. That seems a little bit unfair, don’t you think?”
Just hearing those names leaves a sour taste on my tongue.
“It does seem unfair.” I say in agreement.
A wicked smile spreads across his face.
“Ok then, let us work on getting you out of here, so we can start on making things right for the both of us.”
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