PREGNANT CASHIER’S HUSBAND DESTROYED HER PHONE SO SHE COULDN’T CALL FOR HELP—HE HAD NO IDEA A MAFIA BOSS WAS WATCHING FROM AISLE THREE

said. “Clean out your station.”

“What trouble?”

But the owner wouldn’t meet his eyes.

Then Derek’s debit card was declined at a liquor store.

Then his bookie stopped answering calls.

Then the bookie’s cousin did answer, and his tone wasn’t friendly.

“You got the wrong kind of attention,” the cousin said.

Derek tried to laugh.

“From who?”

Silence.

Then:

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