The Goodbye Kiss
“And that was an inexcusable mistake. You can feel secure only when you've never done anything outside the rules. All a guy like me could do was rely on the odds. At the most I could say I felt "reasonably" secure. That was the only way you stopped yourself from lowering your guard.
But a mistake I made in the past-and I made lots of them-came back and caught me with my pants down. Anedda. I looked up and found him in front of me. The first thing that crossed my mind was I should've killed him t...o stop him from coming back into my life. He sure wasn't paying me some courtesy visit.
Ferruccio the bull was in a jam. A big jam. You just had to look at him to see he was desperate. Suit wrinkled, face unshaven, eyes glassy and feverish, hair mussed. Before me stood the ghost of the man I once knew. His look said I was his last hope. I poured him a brandy. Cheap stuff. What I used for a caffe corretto. He knocked it back.
"I got to talk to you." He was hoarse. The tension between us was almost as thick as the smoke from his cigarette.MoreLess
But a mistake I made in the past-and I made lots of them-came back and caught me with my pants down. Anedda. I looked up and found him in front of me. The first thing that crossed my mind was I should've killed him t...o stop him from coming back into my life. He sure wasn't paying me some courtesy visit.
Ferruccio the bull was in a jam. A big jam. You just had to look at him to see he was desperate. Suit wrinkled, face unshaven, eyes glassy and feverish, hair mussed. Before me stood the ghost of the man I once knew. His look said I was his last hope. I poured him a brandy. Cheap stuff. What I used for a caffe corretto. He knocked it back.
"I got to talk to you." He was hoarse. The tension between us was almost as thick as the smoke from his cigarette.MoreLess
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