Chapter Eleven: A Failed Business

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The FBI agent walked closer and closer to Maxi after shutting off the camera as he went on a spiel about the illegal gambling operation. "Now, you boys, you didn't just try and hide millions of bucks from the feds and expect to not be caught. No. You decided to bang it out in an old department store ten blocks from an FBI safe house. How can you be so smart planning illegal operations yet be so dumb when it comes time to put those plans into action?" Maxi stayed silent. Cramerton grew angrier. "Talk!" His thunderous voice echoed inside Maxi's head. Cramerton then let loose a punch so brutal that Maxi's upper lip and nose started to bleed. Maxi grew shocked by the unexpected coercion by the FBI agent but chose to stay silent. Cramerton said, "I will make sure you rot in prison." He then turned the camera back on and banged on the door to leave. It opened and Cramerton said, "Get this piece of crap out of here and back in prison where he belongs. I don't want to see him anymore." The guards did as they were told and in a matter of days, Maxi was right back where he was originally sentenced to. Once he got back into his small cell, he smiled before talking to himself. "It's time to get the band back together."

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