“I’m just saying that people have done worse things and gotten a pass.” “I’m not without feeling,” Núñez says, “for this young man’s past. But his father was a hotheaded madman addled by drug addiction, and he had to go. Now the son has displayed the same sort of erratic, dangerous behavior. Yielding to pity would be a self-indulgent abdication of our responsibilities.” “Which is your way of saying that you want him dead.” Núñez turns to Belinda, and now Ric gets why she’s there. Dead isn’t good enough. Ric starts the engine. “I’m not doing it.” “Doing what?” “Torturing a friend, I’m not doing
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