he's com
She crouched behind the wheel of a battered city van parked just outside a
he alley through a cracked rear-view mirror. "Looks like it. S
ah muttered. "S
to pick flowers,
ke he owed the world money. He carried a cross-bag slu
t," Lea
kpocket, Cryptocurrency Scammer, runs with t
uld reply, it al
r across the street, and panicked. He shoved a passing cyclis
.....
t. Too fast. He darted through traffic, nearly got clipped by a
eam e
age boy lay groaning near the entrance blo
the kid," he said. "
y faces. Too much noise. Someone had h
breath. "He's in th
whil
er pulled
cumbag!" h
in the ski mask, who flopped to the ground wi
erhead, catching the moment from every angle. The whole bottom floor of the Regency Mall was hi
eapons, breakaway furniture, and a
yelled from behind a fold
m telling you, this would crush on Prime. Add som
r eyes. Most of them were ex-Ma
ater and high-fived a makeup artist,
a s
vest. "That scream didn't sound fake," he
fter him, "Jason! That
looking back. "Probably one o
upstairs was oddly tense. No smoke machine. No mu
he sa
g toward the emergency exit. His face wa
houted. "You
shoved over a trash can and
t one of t
drenaline kicking in. "Stop! I'm..
side hallway but not before throwing a q
u just sw
hit, then tackled the man into a
shed to
d the back of his coat. "Chill, man! What's wro
bowed him
right. You wanna p
locking the man
back, and collapsed flat on
panting, looki
was definitel
one shouted, "Po
the flashlight beam of a gu
be kidding me,
tur
Detective Leah Moo
rked, eyes wide. "
nked. "Wa
ious suspect and Jason's very real-look
under
n fr
slowly, "I know