Finally, though there was a strange tenseness eating me up, I forced myself to nod. “Okay. I give my word. Will you tell me now?”
He hesitated still, which told me that what he knew didn’t sit well with him, but eventually he finally came clean about it. “Spin always had a tendency to meddle with people he wasn’t equipped to handle. That’s what happens when you think you’re the baddest monster around.” He shook his head, looking both nervous and irritated, strange as that was. “Spin was always like that. Thought playing with drugs and guns and circumnavigating cops meant he was the biggest fish in town. And maybe he was, but when you start looking at other towns, you start noticing there are big fish there, too. Much, much bigger fish.”
“What are you getting at?” I asked, feeling impatie
