Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 218

"Do they have any idea when they're going to let me out?" I asked.

Rebecca got up, "I'll go and see."

After she left Russo sat down on the bed beside me.

"I'm sorry I called you, kid. You could've died and it would've been my fault," he said. He seemed to have as much regard for me as I had for him.

"Sharkey," I said, "if I had been killed it would've been my own carelessness that did it. And what did you tell me long ago? If it's your time to go, you'll go. If not, you won't."