Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 198

There was a man sitting at a table in the center of the cantina. He was a burly man with a big, thick black beard. He looked like a dock worker, complete with a knit navy blue cap pressing down on his black hair. His arms looked like the limbs on a redwood tree. And yet when Sharkey Russo approached this man he looked like a frightened kitten that had just been encircled by rabid bulldogs.

The man took a case from under the table and rested it on the top. Russo just stood there staring down at the man...