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Ryan

It was a long fucking day

To be fair, most of them were

You didn't get into the loansharking business and expect donut holes in the conference roo over the water cooler about some show everyone was currently obsessed with It was always tense and probleeneral population as a whole

I sighed as I brought my arm up to check my watch and saw a smatter of blood on the cuff ofquestions a long dao

I wasn't usually the one doing the blood spilling to be perfectly honest I handledpaperwork and kept the books and paid that first 'you owe us, pay up, or else' visits to clients From there, I would send Mark If Mark wasn't effective, then Shane stepped up And, if after Shane was done with you and you still didn't find the money to pay off your debts, then ould sic Eli on your poor ass

But, what can I say, I was in a bad s escalated I didn't like having to spill blood on a first visit I avoided it at all costs, wanting to keep things a as the client did as well

That being said, disrespect would never be tolerated

I stepped out of the elevator and dug for the key toat the door across the hall fro the only two apart I didn't often see there, but every ti- I sawat her door

See, the thing is, I only kneas a her because I caught sight of blonde hair once when she was picking up one of the dozens of packages she had delivered outside her door every week How she got thethem on the desk by the mailboxes in the lobby was cole time for her

My neighbor, well, she was some kind of shut-in

She didn't leave for work She didn't go out at night She didn't even run errands

And she very rarely had any kind of company

When she did though, it was the guys who gave every appearance of being bad news

I was a criminal I spent my life around fellow criminals I could spot one when I saw one