**ANTONY SANTOS**. "I'll drop you off at your place. We can talk on the way."I sighted the SUV from my end.He better have a damn good explanation."I can literally hear you puffing from here, it's not like you can beat me up."He joked behind me.My tightened knuckles are saying otherwise, I'm over the edge and highly tempted to do something, but he's older which hasn't been a problem with anyone else in the past, but I'll have to accredit him as Tracy's father and with what's going on now, punching her father is a terrible idea."Get in."One of his guards pulled the door for both of us. He's gotten twice the amount of guards. IfAntonov gets out of holding, these will be nothing."You're angry. I can tell.""Back at the FBI, we were on the same side, youwanted that man as far away from your daughter as possible, we agreed that as long as he betrayed us once, he could do it again. I'm just confused because I fail to u

**ANTONY SANTOS**. "The trail starts today right?"I asked Michael. After taking a shower, I picked my things and left in the car which was returned to me sometime. I'm not sure when theyeventually brought it back, but they did and no one cared to alert me.It's fine."The trail doesn't start today, it's not a pop quiz where you can actually wake up one day and decide when it starts.""So when does the trail start?""The trail starts in a few days. Maybe three at most. That's when the congressional hearing will be in a court. If he pleads guilty and I hope he does, it'll make everything so much easier with all the evidence already in our possession.""And if he doesn't plead guilty?""If he decides to remain stubborn and does not plead guilty, then we'll have to take him down in court.""We have everything?""Stop overthinking things, Antony . You know as much as I do the evidence in our possession and what it entails, fo

**ANTONY SANTOS**. "I'm just going to take this away from you and keep it. In fact I shouldn't have brought you to a shooting range in the first place."He pulled my two hands, urging me to leave this range. What's strange is how I've grown connected to one building in days. I don't see myself doing anything aside from shootingthings. More importantly shooting Antonov Vasquez."I can handle myself.""No you can't. You're thinking there's no way out. No legal way out. No way out where you don't end up in prison when this is done so you're taking the lethal option. The chemical one. The very bad option and the Antony I know sees that it is. That option because tteee is no way in hell I'll stand here and watch you commit murder."He snapped."I wasn't ..""You were. The first step to getting it out of your head is admitting that you were. After that you get it out because if you so much as touch a finger on his hair

**ETHAN RAMIREZ**-TWENTY FOUR HOURS EARLIER.I just conceded to aiding and abetting murder.It's not the first time such is occuring, I've done it before but with a different client if I'm permittee to use that phrase.The other time something like this happened was with the man I just agreed to kill.First it was Shawn. It started with Shawn. He sent me inside to spy on her and you're well aware of how the story goes.The brave soldier sent in after getting his head filled with a bunch of nonsense. He practices everything, how the inflitration will go and what needed to be done to achieve success.Alas everything shots down to hell when the said soldier finds out what he truly signed up for. It's nothing like what he hoped.And the story goes forth till we find ourselves in this corner, on this side of history.I have to say this one too many times before I believe it. Now that I just had that little dash through memory lane, I have to commend myself.No one is going to do is for me

**ETHAN RAMIREZ**I dropped my hands by my side, a scoff falling off my lips as I pulled away from the man I thought was truly sane. Turns out he lots his mind in the midst of this entire thing. Just as the rest of us did. We've all lost a part of us. Some more than othersNow we are all crazy, one way or another.I'm still keeping a tight lid on mine, trying hard not to get it out of hand, doing my best to control these things because eventually we will get over it.It's just a phase in life as even though we might not like to admit it, everyone has these things.The peak point in their life, the point where you feel every damn thing is so fucking wrong and you're tired. You're done. You're hurt. You're crying. You're screaming.Everyone is depressed. Everyone suffers grief.At some point. Everyone feels these things. But that doesn't mean they all commit murder.Maybe Antony is fucking with me. He has to be that.That is the only way I maintain my sanity in this thing.I should hav