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Lily was about to say the sauy by the naed it forever A tough ex-ood to be true"

"What kind of offer?" she asked

"General Lee was putting together a crack team of specialists, sworn to secrecy and bound to work for the United States government, a depart out all the charges againstwhat?"

"The United States governs that they can’t recover Things that the government tries to retrieve by conventional et back because either the court systeood lawyers Soal way"

Lily snorted "As both a cop and a PI, I’ve seen that happen all too often And it’s frustrating as hell"

He nodded "Tell e laid it all out forNo one outside a single branch of the governerous and if ere caught at it, the government, and he, would deny our existence"

"In other words, you had to be really good at what you did, because if you got caught in these thefts, you would go to jail and they wouldn’t be able to bail you out this time," she said

"Right But hell, it orth the risk I wanted a chance to turn e instead of fucking up like I had been"

"So you said yes"

He sees disappeared, and I left with him"

"Sounds so sih son of a bitch And he knew he had a half dozen lazy, young, good-for-nothing criminals on his hands So he had to show us the way It was like boot ca, had rules and regulations There was no partying, no drinking, no s How did you survive?" she asked, tongue in cheek

"Nearly died the first month," he teased back "It ful You never heard a bunch of grown men whine like babies more than we did But little by little he turned us into the men ere supposed to be--the men he knee could be He broke us down, then he built us up again He taught us that eren’t worthless, that we did have soer,us asn’t whip sin with, so he h school diplouys should have gone on to college" He ran his fingers through his hair "I wish you could meet them, Lily I’ve never had brothers, until I joined Wild Riders I’ve never been closer to a group of guys before"

"Wild Riders?"

He cocked his head to the side and cast her a half s It reminded her of the old Mac, the one who could anization We’re into cars and bikes We all ride together"

"So you’re all bikers?"

"Yeah Grange uys ere fa theh "Yeah, you could say that we all had that kind of history in our backgrounds"

"So do you all ride bikes? Certain kinds? Harleys, crotch rockets or what?"

"One bike is prettyBut uy has his own preference as to the type of Harley he runs with

And muscle cars, too, just like the ones I used to work on e first uys ride bikes and drive fast cars too?"

"Yeah We’re all around the sae"

"Are you all from Dallas?"

He shook his head "No Wild Riders headquarters is in Dallas Convenient for uys are from all over"

"So you live at this headquarters?"

"A few of the guys hang out there a lot because they don’t have a permanent place and travel a lot Soe and I do live at Wild Riders headquarters, though Easy forrent at another place We all e wants to run through some kind of operation, like tech stuff or to work on the bikes or cars"

"All the bikes and cars are stored there?"

"The ones we use for ops, yeah"

"I see I guess you have a lot to tell me, don’t you?"

"About Wild Riders?"

She shook her head "No, about how you became one"

He nodded "Okay"

Mac’s eyes lit up as he told the story of his transfor fro e is the one who did it all I just went along for the ride He took a bunch of worthless losers and "

She reached for his hand "You were never worthless or a loser I never thought so anyway"

He put his other hand over hers "Then you’re about the only one who didn’t think it Most everyone else did"

"I always believed in you, Mac I still do That’s why I’ for answers on the virus"

She nodded