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Daniel Rosenstein

You haven’t thought this through properly, the monkey says, his thick prickly tail coiled tightly around my throat.

“Shh,” I order, yanking him off.

You should turn back, Danny Boy.

“What, so I can get stoned with Chloé?”

Beats losing your license. Imagine that: Dr. Rosenstein loses medical license after he breaks ethical code and batters human trafficker to a bloody pulp.

“There will be no violence,” I say.

The monkey gives me a dubious look.

“There will be no violence!” I shout again, stepping on the gas. My throat, all the while, craving a Jack Daniel’s. On the rocks.