*T.J.*

"It is a beauty. One of a kind. It was sold to me by Joe's widow. She said it was evil and it had gotten him shot." Ted said.

I walked over as Raphael and Ted talked and carefully took it out of the window display. As I held the guitar I could feel the sheer power of it.

In the meantime

As I stood in the pawn shop with T.J., who was holding the guitar. I was half listening to Ted who was talking about the history of the guitar. What finally got my attention was when he said: "There was more than just Joe."
I shuddered as I realized that there were many that bought the guitar and paid the price....
I knew it was going take a while for T.J. to come back....
In the meantime, I watched T.J. and waited......
But what was going to be the outcome?