“You’re some type of ex-military, probably army or marine but definitely special ops—you know your way around a gun but you’re too—” I waved my hand at him and tilted my head. “—criminal-ly to be a cop or something. You enjoy nature because it doesn’t talk back and ask you silly questions. It just is and you like the simple but brutal way of life out here. It’s survival. It makes sense. You had trouble with the law—yes, obvious I know—but you have that look in your eyes of someone who’s gone through some dark aspect of human depravity—either prison or maybe something else—so I bet it’s not
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