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Answer the fking question, assle! "I knoorks So what’s this weeks total?" I asked again, feeling er

"Fourteen and a half," he stated, pressing his fingertips together and sitting back in his chair, his eyes clearly amused

It went up by one and a half thousand in a week? Oh shit, I am in so much trouble! I tried my best not to show any reaction, that was exactly what he wanted I stood up and pulled the seven hundred bucks that I had et from the ATM down the road I threw it on his desk and sat back down

His eyes grew amused as he looked at it "I may not be Rain Man but even I can see that doesn’t quite cover it," he joked, s I want you to leaveover her debt, from now on you deal with me" I looked at hiain then I was cutting hi back to his wife in a clear plastic bag

He smiled and leant forward in his chair, "Oh really? Brett Mason’s little protégé owesquietly to hiht aboutI still had links to Brett and his organisation or soet you about a thousand aboohtly "The interest alone is six thousand a month"

I felt my heart sink, there was no other way around this, I couldn’t just take over the debt and pay hies, I didn’t even earn six thousand aout, just transfer the debt into et you yourat hiain, he sat back in his chair with his fingers together under his chin, his eyes scanning my face "You know, if you were to coet this debt ever existed"

I shook my head fiercely, my loyalty was and would always be to Brett, I wouldn’t ever jump ship like that, not to mention the fact that Brett would have et you your money as soon as I can In the meantime, if I find out one of your boys has even looked atthe was over

He laughed, "You alere a scrappy little shit"

I sement "So they tell me Thanks for your ti to be disrabbed and dragged into the back alley and beaten senseless for the semi disrespect that I just showed to him

I made it to the car unscathed so I jumped in and pulled away quickly before he could send souys with guns really wasn’t in my favour

I stopped the car when I was a few blocks away and cut the engine

I gripped the steering wheel tightly and closed h I didn’t have any choice, I didn’t earn enough to cover this debt that I’d just pulled over my head, this was the only way out of it

I pulledhis nu back on the seat, waiting for him to answer When the line connected I felt ened to the fact that a waster like et out of the life of crime

"Hey, Kid!" he chirped happily

I sot on ith Brett, I guess he was the ure from my life I sed my pride and just did what needed to be done, there was no other way around it, it was this or I’d wind up dead

"Hey, Brett I’m, err…I’m in a bit of trouble and I need a couple of jobs"

Chapter 14

I pulled up outside the warehouse and just sat in the car looking at it, wondering what on earth I had gotten myself into I knew I could just tell Brett about the debt and he would pay it off, all interest would stop being added, the threats of violence would cease But the thing is, I would actually rather owe money to Tony Grier than Brett If I owed Tony, once the debt was paid off, I was free, it was over If I let Brett pay off the debt forrun I would be forever indebted to him; there would always just be one more job that I owed hi straight Ellie and I wereofrapped onata smile, I pushed the door open and stepped out "Hey, what you doing here?" he asked, looking a little confused "I thought eren’tthat everything was fine, pretending that I didn’t have a whole heap of shit suspended above , I’d becoe

"I just caonna ask hi like it was no big deal

He frowned "I thought you were going clean That you were happy being out of this all I thought you didn’t want your girl to knohat you used to be Why do you need it now?" he asked, looking concerned