Adam kept walking after scattering the broken phone pieces.
He did not slow down, and he did not look back. A few people passed him on the road without giving him a second glance. Somewhere behind him, a driver leaned on his horn for no real reason. The city kept moving like nothing important had happened.
'I survived that because Bruno wanted something,' Adam thought. 'If he had come with a different intention, I might have walked straight into my own grave today.'
Bruno had not come to kill him. Bruno had come begging for a way to live. That desperation had saved Adam more than Adam's own planning had. If Bruno's mind had been set on something else, then Adam would have had to use the hidden card he had been holding back.
Even then, there was no guarantee things would have gone cleanly.
Adam exhaled slowly.
