“Samael.” He couldn’t see any harm in telling her.  Only a very small handful of people knew that name, and anyway, she didn’t know his face.  The best she could offer to the police right now was a voice ID.

And what if she did go to the police?  Leroy could have any case thrown out, couldn’t he?  Well, up until he ( Read more... )

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            She was sitting casually on top of a dumpster, leaning back against the brick wall and smoking a cigarette.  She showed only annoyance at the gun pointed towards her belly.

“You want to get that thing out of my face?” she said, and he was so astonished that he did so.

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“Goodamn fucking punks, what do they think they’re doing slashing somebody’s tires like we don’t have to pay for them!”

John L. Woods turned the corner, and Samael had him.

The throat was a soft place on a human body, but Samael could still feel the impact of stabbing John L. Woods in the neck all the way up to his ( Read more... )

            John L. Woods was almost always on Jin Craig’s premises or alone in his heavily secured condominium.  He had no social life, no family and no hobbies.

However, he did seem to have a love for chili dogs at Bob’s Dog Palace.  At least twice a week he’d stop in to get an order of two chili dogs and fries.  As there was no ( Read more... )

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John L. Woods was arguably the best lawyer in Shiloh.  He had begun practicing criminal law right after graduation and rose through the ranks of his firm so quickly that it boggled the minds of his superiors.

It wasn’t five years before the prestigious Simone and Roberts Et All Law Firm became Simone, Roberts and Woods Et All.  It was ( Read more... )

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Once or twice, Samael came across them at night. Putting an end to one of his targets would also result in saving their lives. Sensible ones ran away from him as quickly as possible, but there were those who had stars pop into their eyes as they squealed about how grateful they were and how they’d do anything to pay him back…Jesus Christ on a ( Read more... )

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