"But I hunted all of those bastards down.” He rises slowly, a panther uncoiling from the underbrush. There’s something final in the way he moves, something that says the past is still bleeding under his nails. "Every last one of them. The men who did it. They begged for mercy." He rises to his feet, stalking toward me in steady strides. "They tried to escape, offered me money, even their own family members, in exchange for their miserable, worthless lives. One tried to claim someone else hired them to do it. But I ignored their lies and manipulations as I tore their cowardly spines out of
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