Monster (Ten Years Earlier)
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HE’D HAD ENOUGH of being kept in this room.
Monster was a grown man now, and even with the occasional woman brought to him, like scraps of meat thrown at a caged lion, he’d grown restless. His father’s lessons had become pointless. He’d done enough learning; now was the time to start doing. He wanted to put all those hours and days and years of tutoring to practice. He wanted to work side by side with his father.
He wasn’t a child anymore, and he’d had enough of being treated like one.
In his frustration, he spent hour after hour working out with the gym equipment positioned in the corner of his room. He ran for miles on the treadmill, his torso naked, until he poured with sweat and his legs trembled with fatigue. But even exhausted, it wasn’t enou
