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I stared, not with confusion, but with a slow, si an assle for twenty-five years Don’t change it up onfro inside, I clenched loves "Because it won’t change anything"

I’ on reen eyes, green eyes turned an e and twisting beneath me She’s that one precious dia wants to chase, the mare you want to ride, bridle and tame--but not completely Oh, no, not all the time because her wildness excites you Her wildnessravenous

Hell, these past days I feel like I haven’t fking eaten in a hundred thousand weeks

Goddammit! Get out of my head, princess

I’et finally appears

I sit behind an open newspaper with htly underneath,h not to alarh to be heard by the poor shit I’m here to fk with "Sit down," I say

He jerks at the sound of my voice and reaches into his pocket for what I assume is some method of self-defense "Guy like you, you can’t see it, but there are several shooters trained on you froht as well sit"

He drops down like lead into the chair I kick out for hi him with my attention, while my SIG seht at his heart

I slide my aviators to the top of ed, probably he’s realized he’ll be stuck in a shit job for the rest of his life and thought he could bet his way to a better life, and instead it got worse

"I stopped by your house yesterday to leave you a little present, but I was afraid your ould see the contents, and considering the nature"

With my free hand, I slide over a manila envelope His hands trees of hiasps

"She’s got you by the nuts, huh?" I lean over so he can hear me well My blood pumps hot as I think of my own nuts, andht you could fk this chick once and walk away, but you couldn’t She ild and you liked that She looked at you like you were god’s fking gift to womankind; you must have liked that too"

I pause for three heartbeats whilepaler and paler "I bet you’re obsessed with the way she feels, the way her hair smells, how she s malesWell, Hendricks, I’round 168,434 for your ga losses, and we’re ready to collect"

I lean back and slide my aviators back over my eyes "You can’t keep your puy on host, so it’s safe to assu clear here

I fold the paper, SIG and all, into the pocket of my jacket "One of my men will meet you here, toot copies of these iet them when you pay up what you owe, but don’t testas yours" Mynuts, in a twist over a girl with golden hair and green eyes and a suts uy is

When the target leaves, CC and I go check up with the team in silence All of the Brother sea ho the surveillance calad to be out of the house and getting the gist of the planning As for the teaot tabs on Derek towhat he knows, but the rest, I’ surveillance tapes Blood oath is fine--except I don’t trust my own shadow

The first I had to test was CC--because he’s the closest to a brother I’ve got and I had to know if his loyalties are to my father, who’s fed him all these years, or to his blood brother, who’s been lass held a very deadly substance, and asked you to take it to my father, ould you say?"

"I’d say yes, assle, what do you think I’d say?" CC replies, sticking a toothpick into his teeth and letting it dangle there We’re outside my dad’s bedroom, where he’s monitored by his medical team 24/7 The door is opened partway, and we can see

"Good Since you’re the only one I trust, I say you better go So go" I hand hilass "Take it, discreetly"

He looks at me "I kno to be discreet Just tell me Will it be painful for the dude?"