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"Isaac was here because someone in our club let him in One of our brothers, one of the people I’m supposed to be the most loyal to, made sure that Isaac was in place to take us all out Not just King or Preppy, but me too Whoever let hiive a fuck that the end result was supposed to be a bullet inhead" Chop opened his mouth to speak but Bear wasn’t finished "And don’t you dare fucking speak to me about loyalty Just ask Mo dead because of you"

"You ungrateful motherfucke--Chop wrinkled his nose like he was about to breath fire fro loyalty to this club!? I have taken bullets for you I have killed without question I’ve been nothing but in, a hundred and fifty percent, since the day I put on this cut It’s you who needs a reality check, Pops" Bear took a step back "Prep, King, they wereup than you ever were And if you really want to talk loyalty, then let’s talk loyalty Because if Prep were still here, I would take that bullet for hiirl is in trouble, ht already be dead, and I would step into her place in a heartbeat so that he wouldn’t have to live without his girl"

Chop took another step forward, his forehead al about your fucking brothers"

"So the fuck a toward the gate "So the fuck ao"

"It’s your decision boy," his dad called out "But if you leave right now, then you leave your cut here I fucking ed out of his cut and held it up, exposing his bare chest and the double gun holster that his vest had easily hidden "Fine bywe have here?" Bear looked around to the balconies which were now full of spectators "This whole thing is supposed to be about family, but as much as I want that to be true…it isn’t Hasn’t been for a real long fucking tiot isas he focused on the cut in Bear’s hand

"That’s where you’re wrong, oldis my brother And if you can’t respect my family…" Bear looked up to the biker filled balcony Then he walked over to a broken plastic chair leaning haphazardly against the chipped stucco With one last reverent glance down at the scrap of leather thatin his world, he set his cut on the chair "Then I can’t respect yours"

"Let’s go, man," I said to Bear I’d been around the Beach Bastards since I was fifteen Long enough to know I needed to get Bear the fuck out of there as fast as fucking possible Not just because ti for Pup, but because I knew that once your prospect time was up and you were patched in as a fullaway fro your cut

You were either buried in it…or buried without it

And if you were buried without it, your death wasn’t froet Bear the fuck out of there before they re

At ten fifty-five pm Bear, Jake and I were on our storoves on the back property line The houseboat in our sights

That’s where the senator was torturing ain, the plan is that you wait ten minutes," I said "No matter what you hear, no matter what you see, you wait tenkilled because I didn’t play by the psycho senator’s rules" Jake and Bear both nodded in agreement "I also need to make sure you two both kno this ends When you come in, and the choice is between me or her, you chose her You always chose her"

I will always choose her

I cracked my knuckles "I can’t do this unless I know in the end, noshit plays out, that she’ll at leastback toward the houseboat, Jake nodded "Agreed"

"No probleh, I’ll take real good care of your girl for you"