The Kings Of Cool

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“Why didn’t you tell me about this before?” Chon asks after Ben has laid it all out for him.

“What were you supposed to do about it from Afghanistan?” Ben asks. “Then from a hospital bed?”

“We’ve always told each other everything,” Chon says. “That was the deal.”

“I know. I’m sorry.”

“Yeah, well, I’m guilty, too.” He tells Ben about Brian and the Boys. “That guy was testing us, seeing how we’d react. The second I left, he moved in on you.”

Ben is worked. Two people dead because of him. It’s wrong, Ben says, just flat-out fucking wrong to let them literally get away with murder.

Ben just can’t let it happen.

And won’t let it happen.