Epilogue
Grizz was glad the day was over. The authorities had come and arrested Manuel Bautista. The General had signed the contract on the dotted line. All was right with the world again.
As he watched Bautista being carted away, he had sympathy for the guy. Grizz knew what it was like to reach higher than his station. To want something he had no right to. But unlike the old man, Grizz would never take what was not his.
The powers that be thought he had. His superiors thought he’d broken rules and overstepped his bounds. He hadn’t. But he had stayed silent as something had gone down. So he was tarnished by proximity.
That was pretty much the story of his life. Even joining the elite Army Ranger force had not shaken the stank of his lower class breeding from his back. The stank wasn’t
