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- Author: Lauren Biel
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Six Years Later
Gentry
I’ve been a free man for one week, but I thought about my brother every
day during my prison stay. It wasn’t my wife’s murder that put me away.
We called in a favor from George, our handler, and he had his clean-up
crew take care of the mess. With no one to miss her—aside from the men
who’d been dicking her down—we got away clean. What landed me in
prison was a case of bad timing and empty pockets.
Hitmen are usually paid well for their services, but my brother and I
weren’t typical hitmen. Instead of working for a large payout, we worked
for a gamble. The buyer paid George, George gave us the details, and we
got to take whatever we wanted from the scene. Leaving out the bank
transfers meant no paper trail, and George had a team that scrubbed scenes
for us, so it usually felt like a fair trade. We got to kill—which we
thoroughly enjoyed—and didn’t have to worry about what happened later.
This arrangement didn’t always work in our favor, though. Our last two hits
had been cash poor, which meant we were cash poor as well. We needed
money, so Karson and I thought we’d harken back to our teenage years and
do a quick robbery.
That quick robbery turned into six long years in a cell for me.
I can still hear the sound of Karson’s voice as he sat in a wooden box
and sang like a canary to cover his own ass. I encouraged him to do it, but it
still fucking sucked. He’s never been right in the head, and serving time in a
cage would have resulted in an implosion of his mind. I still hadn’t forgiven
him for fucking my wife, but I had to protect him.
We’d been killing together long before it became a job, when it was just
for sport and didn’t matter who got caught in the crossfire. We were called
the “Kursed” brothers. It was a play on our last name—Kursicki—coupled
with the fact that the people around us always seemed to disappear.
We used to actually enjoy each other’s company.
Before.
Before I walked in on him fucking my wife and we split our business. I
didn’t trust him, and trust was imperative in a business such as ours. I never
thought there’d be a day when we had to go on separate paths. Or a day
when I began to hate the work I was born to do. Everything began to piss
me off, and it all centered on Karson and his shit behavior. He’d drag
anyone to hell with him as long as he had someone to keep him company.
That’s why we no longer spoke, and I planned to keep it that way.
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