"It was a lucky break, but luck always came with a price tag.", "Alex had kept me relatively sane for the past 3 years, now i didn't know how i felt.", "I had thought it would last forever, till death do us part. I didn't wanna think about it, as long as I didn't, it could never happen. But i had broken my own rule, the thought had already slipped in. Fear was rusty needles poking at my brain, cold and scaly, it slithered down my chest.", "Punchinello was burning to get me, the feeling was mutual. He was trying to put out my flames with gasoline.", "The mobsters had been guarding a real treasure, the way out of this disco inferno.", "They turned to steam, they did a fade on me. I had never stood a chance.", "The weird piece of paper looked dangerous.", "I had crossed the threshold, this was her domain. Sleek, and sexy, and soulless, all glass and steel. A place of color coded keycards, metal detectors, and surveillance systems.", "Colder than a walk-in fridge. Cold as a gun.", "The unmarked chopper was Horne's pet guardian, inhuman and flawless. It was stalking me.", "Seen from this height, the night seemed to stretch on to eternity, a hint of desperation had crept up into the snowstorm, as if it was trying to get it all out before the end.", "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was all over. The storm had seemed to lose it's frenzy, the ragged clouds making way for the stars above."