CHAPTER HUNDRED & THIRTY EIGHT

Of all the things he despised about the country, Riker despised the fear that people carried about, hoarding it close to their hearts.

Cowardice was a stain, Riker had always believed. It was a thing that ought to be washed clean out of the body and the soul.

Of all the things the people feared, they feared the police the most. Perhaps, he did not share the same fear and trembling that they felt because he had grown up affluent.

His father had the police in the palm of his hand. How else would he have evaded that hit and run charge in high school? How else would he have buried that case in college when Reynolds Sheen came after him.

He had tried to understand their fear so many times; he still could not. While other people caught sight of the police and froze like animals caught in headlights, for Riker, they were but a minor disturbance. He cared little for them most days, less other days.

This was why he was filled with unbowed rage when the man said no to him.

"I don't want an
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