Malcolm Bright

I'm sorry to hear that. Regardless of it it works or not, it still tends to hurt.

[Try isn't the word Abel would use when it came to Cook, because he'd succeeded at it, exceptionally well.]

The last time I was in that office, I was being held by two armed infantry men, and when Cook asked them to hold me down so Cain would be forced to watch, he broke free and killed the man at my right with the first shot.

I- [He pulls in a breath, trying to be honest, doesn't want to keep it to himself much longer.] I was afraid it would happen again. I didn't even want to give him a chance, not in front of Norton.