Chapter 158

After Sage repeated his words verbatim, Mike asked, “Do you remember anyone you might have had a run-in with who made it clear they were disgusted by the homeless, particularly you, Russ? That goes for you as well, Daw.”

“I’ve had people get in my face, telling me to, you know, ‘Get a job,’ ‘Get off my lazy ass,’ stuff like that,” Russ replied. “Some of them would threaten to call the cops, or welfare. Then there’s the ones who prey on us.”

“They get their jollies beating us up if they can catch us,” Daw put in.

“Yeah. You learn to run fast.” Russ smiled morosely. “I’ve been thinking about this. What happened to me and Daw? That wasn’t like some dude or dudes, coming after us with pipes or baseball bats. It was a guy who snuck up on us while we were asleep. He wantedus dead. Not hurt but dead. He wasn’t trying to teach us a lesson or something.”