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"Your cop fa close to!" he spat

I shook my head "No, I don’t have any ties to my family anymore, Scott Except for an aunt who also has no ties to the lie towith your cop cousin – this fucking week"

"Did Ricky tell you about the Bond case? I assume that’s how he found out my past"

"No He only filled me in on your true identity"

"Danny, ate the h profile drug dealer, Danny wanted the real murderer exposed, but didn’t have faith in his team to do that because he’d discovered his partner was dirty I’d just come back to Brisbane to look into Marcus, and Danny decided I was the only person he could trust Foolishly, I agreed to do it" I raked ation If I could go back and change anything inon this case would be it "In the course ofstory short, that’s co back to bite me in the ass because it’s key evidence in the Bond case now and they want me to testify That’s why I met with Danny this week To tell hietting on that stand"

Scott stared at me in silence as he took all that in Eventually, he said, "Jesus, Griff, what a shit fight" He appeared to have caler at ht otta believe that while I did ret that because I had to do what I did for my family - I wish it could have all happened under different circumstances My loyalty lies coonna need soh this To be honest, I’ six and don’t knohat topercent, and now that trust is gone, and I’m not sure where that leaves us I can’t have a VP I don’t trust And I’m not sure the boys would want a member they can’t trust to reutted

I was nothing

As the ghosts of the past circled, and the demons clawed at the soul I did have left, I sed back h There were none left to say Scott would ht say

"I’ll talk to you to out of the rooness in front of me

Scott had been the one person I’d hoped would understand

Instead, he’d walked out

And o

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