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Tiabout her screamed pure, and I was far fro a step away from her, I spoke a little harder than I meant "No, I can assure you we’ve never ht," I added before turning and striding back to the bar

Once inside and settled back on my stool, I finished my beer and ordered another And attempted to put the blonde out of my mind She was not the type of woman I pursued so it should have been an easy task

It was far fro easy

She’d stirrednature to the sense I’d gotten fro a red flag at a bull, and I was the bull, ready to take and bend and break

Just as I was envisioning a long night being taunted by not only the ghosts ofon caller ID stunned the hell out ofwhat the hellme out of the blue after two years of no contact

"Michael," he greeted me, his voice clear of emotion

"To what do I owe the pleasure?" I asked as I took a swig ofyou a heads up…the Bond case is finally going to trial and you may be called as a witness I couldn’t find a way around it"

"Fuck," I h scenarios in ood

"Yeah, I thought you’d want to know, especially since it seeh the media is all over this" He paused for a moment "Michael, if they call you, your name and identity will be splashed all over the media in Australia There will be no way for you to avoid it"

I threw the rest of my beer downrealise that, Danny," I snapped

"Don’t take this shit out on o You had what you needed from them so I never could work out why you chose to stay The boys and I can try to protect you from thee can do for you Stor reach, and if they want you dead over this, I’ve no doubt they’ll go to every length toto keepStoroes and I sure as fuck knoe deal with shit like this, so don’t try and tellto do with that Bond case all those years ago, and I da to do with it now You need to find a way toelse comes back to hauntwords, if you don’t fix this, you won’t like the ramifications"

Before he could respond, I ended the call Then I paidwas not a good idea in this fra, however, was a fucking good idea

2

Griff

I walked into the clubhouse early the nextsession I’d pushedto feel the burn – needing to forget everything else for a few hours

Not ot there, but I found Scott in the office going through paperwork He glanced up atinto the chair across from him, I rolled my shoulders in an atterimaced "That about sums it up Hoas the party?"

"Madison outdid herself You ht, brother, and by the looks of it, you possibly would have had a better tihly likely," I ood for the party; not in the ether "You got so on that you need help with?"

Guilt flashed throughfroot this A week, two at the most, and I’ll be done with it" I shifted in my chair to try and find a more comfortable position "Where are we at today?"

He leant back in his chair and scrubbed his face I’d been watching Scott for weeks now and the stress the club had been under ritten all over hi a little looser on hiht he’d lost, worry lines creased his face, and he’d taken to not shaving which was so he’d never done in all the time I’d known him "Ricky wants to meet today Just you and rees in Ricky’s territory and he’d appeared happy with that arranges, we’d been working towards ridding the world of that scuet the club ready for any blowback Trust in Scott still sat low for a lot ofthat back up, but it was a slow process It felt like alking a tightrope of keeping Ricky at bay while repairing club ties We were aware of Ricky’s playbook, and figured it was only a matter of time before he came for us