050. finally embracing your dark side, ac.

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Everything Black: Unlike Pluto, Mike Taylor

"You don't have to walk me home. I'm not a dog." I tell Mac and heading inside my house, then closing the door.

"Oh, far from it, Amanda." I hear Murdoc say.

I crane my neck to see him sitting on my couch. "Can I help you?" I enter the living room and shove my hands in my jean pockets.

His face shifts in slight confusion. "Actually, yes, I'm glad you asked that. Any chance I could get a glass of water?" He gets up.

"Yeah." I enter the kitchen and fill up a glass of water, then handing it to him.

"Thank you." He drinks half of it and exhales. "Wow. Perks of living on a beach. The filtering is refreshing." He drinks more of it. "Do you have those chocolate Twizzlers we shared last time?"

"Yeah, I do. Hold on." I head over to the drawer against the wall by the door and I open it. I then hear a knock and I look up at Mac.

"Looks like childhood hang-up came crawling back. You have exactly thirty seconds to make him leave or I blow out his cranium."

I open my door and check the time on my watch. "Matty didn't text us."

"I know." Mac nods. "About Luis-"

"Enrique made his choice, Mac. Your dad will find another way to catch him." I check my watch again.

"You have somewhere to be?"

"No. Like I said, just a habit."

"Lina-"

"I'm tired, Mac. I'll see you later." I close the door and grab the Twizzlers from the drawer.

"With ten seconds to spare. Oh, I really missed you, Amanda." Murdoc laughs and I open the bag of Twizzlers, then handing him two. "Mhm." He takes a bite. "These are so much better than the original."

"If you're gonna kill me, do it now. Don't drag it out."

"Kill you? I'm not here to kill you, Amanda. I'm here cause I need your help." He walks closer to me and I look down to see him still not raising his gun. "See, my son Cassian was kidnapped. Yeah. One of the members of my failed little Collective took him."

"Thought you killed all of them."

"Oh, I tried." He chuckles. "But wouldn't you know? The one guy whose ticket I didn't punch nabs my kid. I should have started with him, hmm?"

I nod and cross my arms. "What's his name?"

"Cassian's kidnapper is a guy named Benjamin Liu. Liu's former Chinese secret police. Very dangerous. He's very violent. The things I used to respect about him. Anyhoo, Liu's ransom demand just came in. $5 million, or Cassian dies."

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