The guy had spread his arms and leaned as if to put the knife on the ground.
He suddenly leaned the other direction and took off running. Cade ran after him,
caught up with him almost instantly, and grabbed his knife arm.
Bones snapped and crushed in his grip. The guy screamed and the knife fell
from his hand to the pavement as he stared at Cade in shock and agony.
"Damn it," muttered Cade, "That's the second time... You. Get the fuck out
of here. Now."
The guy seemed about to faint as his gaze fell to his crushed forearm. Cade
raised his voice a bit. "Now!"
Without a word, the guy slowly backed away, then slipped into the hedges
between the restaurants, disappearing into the darkness beyond.
Mandi walked up as Cade picked up the knife.
"It happened again," he said. "I mashed the holy shit out of his arm."
"So I noticed. Look on the bright side; at least you didn't kill him,
right?"
Glancing at her, Cade said, "I didn't arrest him, either. What does a double
negative do to my ratio?"
Giving him a droll look, Mandi said, "Very funny. Ha, ha."
Cade stopped at the restaurant's dumpster and snapped the knife's blade in a
lid hinge, then tossed the broken parts in the dumpster as he said, "About a
week, right? Then I'll be as strong as I'm going to be and I can start learning
how to handle things so they don't break?"
"You could start now," said Mandi.
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