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It had been awith Ellie The etting s that I hated doing when I was younger I was back inprotectionwith Brett’s suppliers about a new ship in on a boat in a couple of weeks I was basically one of Brett’s hired thugs and had to hand outliberties or trying toeasier though, I didn’t need to go there too much because there wasn’t that much trouble I’d had to sort a few problems with people that used to run the security firm before Brett took it over, they weren’t too happy that they’d lost the contract, but they were over that now Also there was a dealer issue that I sorted pretty quickly One of the girls had trouble with an ex-boyfriend that wouldn’t leave her alone All in all though it had gone pretty smoothly People knew that I was there so lately there was no trouble at all

Thankfully I’d ed it I have no idea because I orking for Brett a lot during the evenings I was getting by on about five hours sleep a night because I’d be out doing boosts about three tihts off I was seriously tired which I think made me more irritable and snappy at other people - but that worked out pretty well too because it just ht I had anger issues I was happy to let people think I had anger issues, that way they were more scared of me and didn’t start trouble so itso much, as far as I could see, was that I earned a bucket load of cash Word had spread quickly that I was back with Brett, deals were rolling in and orders piling up quickly I was earning on average about 18,000 a week Last week I had taken great pleasure in taking a wad of cash down and throwing it on Tony Grier’s desk in full payave 5,000 in cash to o ain, so I’d asked Terry to do it foron a lot better since our little indiscretion with the knife after Ellie’s dance We basically were on friendly terms but didn’t socialise outside of work - he did work security on one of the strip clubs forup froed to set myself up a bank account - which I’d never had before There was less than two oodbye to this life forever Nothing was dragging ot in trouble again then she was on her own this ti, and tohteenth birthday I had made it clear to everyone that I was unavailable to her birthday special for her even if it killedin Brett’s chair, swivelling it back and forth, desperately trying to keepdeal, a huge boost and it was going to be a long one that’s for sure There were ten guys out tonight witha total of twenty-five cars On paper it sounded impossible, but in reality, ten of those cars were all in one place - a warehouse just outside of town We were killing two birds with one stone tonight, the owner of the Jaguar garage whose warehouse it anted to pull an insurance job so ere stealing his cars - then Brett had lined up a buyer for all of the double payment The other fifteen cars however were scattered around all over the place, so I knew I’d be here until the early hours of the

My ‘creere already assembled downstairs but I just needed a couple ofabout tonight Soht in uys that were helping with tonight’s boost, weren’t even used to stealing cars They had no experience whatsoever and were used to working another part of Brett’s business for hie boost just didn’t uess with the a about here, I couldn’t exactly refuse the help - there just wasn’t enough hours of darkness for the usual crew to coet that look on his face when he was concentrating hard on so into his office, a smile on his face I frowned as I took in what he said "You knewabout him before; I didn’t know they even knew each other

Brett nodded, shrugging out of his suit jacket and throwing it over the eh, but you just reminded me of him for a second there," heforward quickly, interested now I’d never really spoken to anyone about my dad before, the only one that ever talked about him was my mother, and that was usually to rant about what an inconsiderate assle he was

Brett smiled and motioned with his hand for me to move "Out of my chair, you don’t run this place yet you know," he said, raising one eyebrow teasingly