Chapter 21

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BUILDING POWER The commission's decision to delay felt like being held underwater. It felt like my fight and plans were on pause and my pace was taken away from me. It felt like the satisfaction i would get from sweet revenge was in a cage and i did not have the keys to. I woke three days after the meeting with that same suffocating sensation too much pressure, not enough air, the knowledge that somewhere out there, Antonio was free while bureaucracy ground forward at the pace of glaciers. Weeks. Possibly months. Arghhh How many people would die in the meantime? How many more families would Antonio destroy while the commission debated "due process"? I pushed off the expensive sheets silk, probably thousand thread count, the kind of luxury I still wasn't used to and padded barefoot to

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