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“Nah,a stroll”

“A stroll, huh? Wasn’t that your bike down half a block?” he asked and I swear his fucking lips twitched I liked Collings We all liked Collings He kne things were in our town and while he did his job, he didn’t go out of his way to create useless problems

“What can I say,” I started with a set tired easily”

“And that little stain on your neck?” the rookie street cop asked

“Must have cut ,” I mused

“Must have,” Collings nodded with a s that I hadn’t bothered to shave in at least two days, but letting it drop “Well, we have doors to knock on and valuable tiet back to your… stroll”

“Catch you around, Collings,” I said as I started away

“Hey Shane,” he called

“Yeah?” I asked, looking over my shoulder

“Orthotics”

“What?”

To that, he gave me a rare full s and walking away

With a laugh, I jogged the rest of the way toin the direction of Willow to the gym

My gym

See, the loan sharking business, it was surprisingly profitable But with a lot of dirty money came the need to try to itimate sources Dad had his bar My brothers had liquor stores and tattoo shops and a whole slew of other ventures Me, I had the gy or two It worked forout It justthat was useful to me

“Did you call Moed and hts Looks-wise, all five of us were the spitting ie of our father and therefore, one another We were all tall, black-haired, and blue-eyed The differences were in the ss Me and my brother Hunter had a shitton of tattoos Hi liked theood fifty pounds of muscle on Hunt Mark, Ryan, and Eli had a tat here or there but weren’t fully co huym as I did and was therefore cut, but he liked to keep the muscle bulk down and I liked to pile it on His hair was north and neat Mine hatever the fuck it looked like after I showered and whatever length it happened to be bethen I reet haircuts