God Damn, Marcus Staab. Every time he looked at her trembling body in the passenger seat, he wanted to kill his close friend. She was but a shell of the girl he knew.
Apparently he and Staab weren't close enough or he would have known why he wanted Linea to go to that low life. Surely his friend couldn't have known what that creep was going to do. If his life meant anything to him, Staab better not have known.
Still, that excused nothing. Linea's trauma was completely his own fault. He was the one who made the decisions. He couldn't fully blame Staab, because he made the ultimate decision, and he betrayed Linea.
She might have died.
Once they reached his home, he again helped her from the truck. As they went inside, Hector immediately began squawking and flapping furiously in his cage
