he 'd clean out the entire damn account to bring a smile to her face . getting my ass handed to me in the cage . my fingers traced the raised edges of a tattoo on his shoulder . can you go pick him up and take him to his mother 's house ? reading these letters had put everything in perspective-although she could n't have said exactly how that had happened . fast as it was , there was still a great distance to cover , the streets of hell stretching endlessly . 