“I don’t have many hobbies of my own,” Armond said when I did not answer. “I just enjoy watching people fulfill their promises to me. Since you had already promised me, it was only natural for me to come and claim it.”
That seemed like a far-fetched reason to me.
“What about my arm?” I asked, determined to change the subject.
A bullet went through it. You’re d*mned lucky to be alive after all of it.
“It’s nothing,” Armond said. “Just rest up well. You’ll be fine, just not able to lift heavy objects is all.”
I pursed my lips at that but nodded.
A scuffle of footsteps outside made me panic, thinking it was Abe, but it was only the nurse here to change my medication.
I had a lot more questions for Armond, but he seemed to be reluctant to discuss them with me. With several more reticent answers, he took his leave.
Armond’s relationship with Abe is more complex than I had first imagined.
After some hot soup, I fell back asleep.
It was rainy in the tropics. Thunderstorms had a tendency to start at night and keep me awake with their fearsome and savage roars.
The hospital was sparsely populated, which made it even spookier during the late-night storms.
I had no way of falling asleep, so I thought to sit up for a bit. I attempted to pull myself into an upright position.
I must have swung overly hard and had knocked the bottle of saline solution to the floor with a loud crash.
The doors swung open at the sound of the disturbance, and Danny entered the ward.
He frowned at the mess on the floor and turned to leave.
Soon after, he returned with a nurse who promptly cleaned it up. She relayed some instructions in broken English and departed.
Danny glanced at me and turned to leave.
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