There wasn’t any part of my body that wasn’t aching. I would have thought I was dead if it weren’t for the pain. I’d assumed that I was done for when I went down on the street. At the moment, I wished that were the case.
Sweat coated me, beads rolling down my body as I slumped over in the chair. If I could move, I would shower and lay in a tub full of ic…


