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Tiaze drifts across the foyer as each guest arrives The crowd asse for instructions, but really, they’re waiting for the poker game to start

Sometimes, I only observe Sometimes, I don’t even bother to coah to keep the players in line Today, I’ll venture downstairs

I want toSo for years He hasn’t arrived yet, but my sources say he has taken the bait Once I have the opportunity, I’ll set the trap

As I wait, I notice a few unfamiliar faces that I need to vet before they can play I can tell tonight will be worse thana lot So the crowd

I see the irony Judging men who are no different from me

They kill

I kill

But there is one difference I only kill when I need to

Some of these dipshits kill for sport

To prove they are men

None of this shit makes the them So, I just clean their money and bleed them with interest instead

Yet even knowing this, they stand here in e to bring the for

With a shake of my head, I walk in their direction with slow and deliberate steps Sizing them up, one by one

Until I find hinal Z He will be my second pair of eyes and ears and watch them

At first, I notice the usual crowd—rich douchebags who have nothing better to do than spend their daddy’shate the type

On the other side of the roo dealers, mafia members, and dirtier than fuck politicians

Each group is important to my operation One washes the other’s hand Most of the people in this roo does the heavy load of cleaning, but what I can’t clean that way, I clean through ame That’s why the rich boys are here They don’t kno to play; they kno to lose

With drinks in hand, the e as usual, so only a few tables are set up, each ranging froit versus illegal