My Arm Cries in Blood — Part II The people in Jake's life were never supposed to matter this much. The bonds were never supposed to run this deep. And the darkness was never supposed to go this far. Part II does not soften. The stakes climb, the fiction takes over completely, and the story earns every advisory label on its cover. The people Jake loves do things that are hard to forgive. So does Jake. This is where the story stops warming up and becomes what it always was going to be. Blood money. Executive salary.