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She was silent then as Riverside Drive scrolled past. They’d revisit this topic soon. He didn’t have that much money put away but he knew where to get some. What else was an ongoing criminal enterprise complicated by periodic violence for, but to make your wife happy?

It had been him against the City for so long, tussling, until he and it finally came to an arrangement: You don’t fuck with me, and I won’t fuck with you. His own Declaration of Independence. Or so he thought. The City had reneged. The City had taken his store to add to its heap of spent tenements, burned-out townhouses, craters, and rubble-strewn lots. Another broken address on an island full of them.

He had worked so hard—no one knew how difficult it had been. There had been no one, no witnesses, until the hard part was done. You’ve come a long way. Working hour upon hour, enduring those waves of setbacks and reversals, sweating and suffering under the eyes of that cruel and dispassionate boss: The City.