Chapter 11

The week that followed Linda’s proposition was a busy one for Toby. One thing that made him immensely happy was that he had been able to free up his mind with his brother about the presence of Linda. He ideally ought to be overly worried about the reaction of Linda about the whole set up, but quite surprisingly, he found peace with an old school line that says, when we get to that bridge, we would cross it.

A noticeable fact that Toby realized about Booker ever since he came back from his outing with his friends was that he was cold towards him. He knew Booker to be a choleric person on some days, and so he didn’t bug him too much about his taciturn nature. Rather, he kept on planning towards the arrival of Linda.

For a while now, prior to the incidence that led to Toby’s shooting, Booker had been off of his job. He was formerly working with a company in Florida that dealt with construction jobs. After a while, most of the workers were laid off the job. Ever since then,