Cash City by Jonathan Fredrick

Author:Jonathan Fredrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Fat Man’s Clothes

The room was dark but Dante Short was not asleep. His right wrist was handcuffed to the metal railing of the bed. His left arm lay flat at his side above the covers. The moment I entered the room his steely gaze locked in on me and never came off. He was a slight man with a small head, large ears, and a beaked nose. His hair was braided in four fat cornrows. Three teardrops were etched on his cheek, two of which were filled in.

I flipped on the light, set the medical chart aside and stood over him. Dante Short did not blink nor move, but the muscles in his jaw bulged from his cheeks they were clenched so tight.

I said, “Do you know who I am?”

“You the walking talking dead man.”

“Well, that’s not exactly accurate now, is it?”

“You dead soon, bitch.”

“Not if they send you after me again. They send you after me again, you’re gonna be the one on the slab just like the rest of your buddies.”

“Fuck you,” Dante Short hissed. “You wanna finish me? Then finish me. Don’t matter, you gonna be put to sleep soon enough. You see this empty teardrop?” He pointed to his cheekbone. “That’s for you, motherfucker.”

“I’d love to help you take your last breath. And hopefully one day your dumb ass will give me the chance. But right now, I need you to deliver a message to your boss.”

“I ain’t got no boss.”

“Cupcake.”

Dante Short averted his eyes from me for the first time since I had walked in the room.

“I can’t get no message to nobody.”

“C’mon, don’t kid a kidder.”

“Man, they don’t let me call nobody or nothing from up in here.”

“You’re a smart guy. Find a way. Your girlfriend comes to visit you, have her pass it on. I don’t care how you do it. But I’m certain that if you don’t give it to him, he’s going to be a lot more upset than if you do.”

Dante ran his tongue over his gold-capped front teeth.

“What’s the message?”

“I’m out of this thing. I don’t give a shit what he wants to do to this town, to the police department, I don’t care, I’m out. I’ve got one thing left to do in Cain City and then I’m done with the place. He can have it for all I care. Until then, he stays away from me, I’ll stay away from him.”

Dante laughed, a protracted, hysterical laugh that made him clutch his ribs in pain, but he nonetheless embellished his hooting to prove a point.

“You dumb motherfucker. Cupcake don’t make no deals.”

“I’ll offer this once. If he comes at me again then he better get me, ’cause if I even catch a whiff, if one of you walks by me on the street by accident, I’ll kill all of you. I’ll start with you for a warm-up. I’ll walk back into this hospital, put a gun in your mouth and blow those gold teeth out the back of your head.

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