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Felix pulled a switchblade out of his pocket, snapped it open, and tossed it onto the<br />
carpet between them.<br />
“The one I’ll tell the cops you pulled on me when they get here. Now tell me where<br />
David is and stop wasting my time.”<br />
“You don’t even know what game you’re playing, Felix Fortune.”<br />
“Oh, so now you know who I am.” Felix pulled back the hammer on his gun again.<br />
“You enjoy this tough guy routine. You like the way it makes you feel, waving that gun<br />
around. Like you’ve got power, right?”<br />
Felix stepped closer and put the barrel of the gun against Maruf’s other knee. He was<br />
struggling not to do it, not to just start taking this guy apart. “I will shoot you again. Tell<br />
me.”<br />
Grimacing and moaning from the pain, Maruf starts to hitch up his left pant leg. “Let<br />
me just see how bad it is. Please… I’ll tell you… just wait…”<br />
Felix held himself back as Maruf exposed his knee.<br />
Maruf wiped the blood off, and Felix felt reality lurch around him, felt himself come<br />
unstuck from the world he understood. There was no damage at all. Maruf’s knee was fine.<br />
Maruf smiled as he stood, and Felix was so dumbfounded that for a moment, he let<br />
Maruf gather himself. “You’ll find him one piece at a time, Fortune.”<br />
That snapped Felix out of it. “What did you say?”<br />
“Here. There. Everywhere.”<br />
As Felix roared and brought his gun up, Maruf dove into him, the two of them<br />
getting tangled together as they fell to the carpet. Felix bounced to his feet immediately, but<br />
Maruf was gone. There was no sign of him anywhere.<br />
Felix tore the room apart, swearing and feeling powerless, and when the cops finally<br />
did arrive, he had managed to get his anger in check. He knew all of the responding officers,<br />
and it was a simple conversation.
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