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Maybe that’s why rumors abounded that TP had randfather--but at least he didn’t have a wife literally overlooking his affairs

"I never fooledI was a handsome son of a bitch like you, Black I’m fat Obnoxious Cocky Crude I don’t score with the ladies because they’re getting a night with Brad Pitt I’m rich That’s my appeal I knehen I married ood with that"

"Does that throwback attitude keep you frohly capable of running their own businesses I just don’t want the mine Men like us? We do e have to do We don’t piss and roup to determine the best course of action We just do it"

Ronin wasn’t anything like TPWas he?

"Can’t go back and change the past, Ronin Only thing you can do isiven the types of favors I’ve done for you in the past--is allowing me to move forward"

"So tell me no"

"Jesus, TP, are you off your meds?"

TP grinned "You paid your debt to o, Ronin It’s your sense of loyalty that keeps you doing the occasional favor for e of that for no reason other than I trust you And you can be guaran-damn-teed if I’ve asked for your help it’s because I’ve exhausted other options"

There was a cohed "My daughter Katie She’s twenty-three, beautiful, sweet, and dumb as a post I say that with pure fatherly love and no otten herself into?"

"Threeher boyfriend was holding her against her will Prior to that, we hadn’t seen the girl for daiti to coure out who she is, they swear it’s true love" He snorted "She even married one of these bastards It lasted one e Every time she’s been in a situation, I’ve bailed her out"

"Of jail?"

"Not so far, knock on wood" He rapped on the table "Like our other kids, when she turned eighteen, she started receiving monthly dividends fro of every month, the balance on the account is close to zero because she--or her douche bag boyfriend of thethose threestory short, ed her out of the roach-infested place she’d been held The wife picked out a rehab place in California that specializes in rebuilding or re-creating self-esteee shit After she cora lad it sounds like everything worked out, why are you telling uy she’d shacked up as an MMA fighter" He blew a sround fights"