Chapter 33

Cage stares, nonplussed, as Joey moves to E-Z Money, who looks positively scrawny beside the larger rapper. E-Z has a lighter skin tone, more yellow than red, but his complexion is bad, pocked with childhood acne scars he tries to hide with jailhouse tattoos and random piercings in places Joey doesn’t want to think about. Silver rings and studs glint from his eyebrows, nostrils, lips, ears, and cheek. There’s even some sort of jewel poking out of the side of his throat; Joey can’t imagine how it got thereand isn’t about to ask.