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I nodded, it all sounded good and to be honest they’d both be crazy not to agree, there was no downsides to it really "But what about when the orders co in, and you have no one to fill the his teeth with his tongue "I’ll sort so around the world quicker than expected, and you’ll want to come back to work I could h then I’ll double your boost fee, how about that?" he asked, looking at etically He’d tried everything to get anisation, threats of violence towards Ellie - that one didn’t go down very ith ised and took it back pretty quickly But none of it was enough to get ht, I was

"I’d recoested That night that I worked with him, he was an incredible booster, he talked too uy

"Who’s Vincent?"

"Oh, right, Dodger," I corrected when I realised that Brett probably didn’t even know his real name

"Man, that has to be the worst nickna reement "Yeah, if it comes to it then I’ll talk to hié forme on the knee We lapsed into silence and I looked out of the tinted atching the streets whizz past in a blur My eyes were heavy; I could actually do with going to sleep right now instead of this

"You know, I’ this life," Brett stated seely out of nowhere

I turned back to look at hihtful expression on his face "Yeah, but I never really wanted this life in the first place," I muttered

He nodded "Your dad would have been proud of you getting out and starting over like this He never really liked this life much either" I looked at him curiously when he et it, the person he worked for wouldn’t have let hiood at what he did; they wouldn’t have wanted to lose his talent froot that froo, and not just for your skills either," he said, s affectionately at me "I’ll actually miss you a lot"

I squirmed a little on my seat, unco

"I’ll reat guy and I’d always liked hi Ellie I liked him anyway I’d miss a lot of the boys on the team; I counted the with his buttons on his suit jacket "I always thought you’d take over from me one day I never had kids of ht of you as my kid If I had to hand hed nervously "I’ to break the intense hed and rolled his eyes "And too conceited," he added

I chuckled "And too s "Don’t push it, I don’t like you thatat me He reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper, holding it out toaway present"

I took the paper cautiously, wondering what it was going to be When I opened it up, I saw a bank account number and passritten on there I frowned "What’s that?"

He sed "I opened you an offshore bank account to help you get started with your girl I know you alanted your own car garage, well, there’s enough in there to help you buy one," he answered, laughing

I gasped, looking at hi the paper back to hi to take it "Kid, just take it and I hope it ht, I don’t want to take this and owe you anything," I countered, looking at hily If I took that money then he’d always have a hold oversound "There’s no strings attached That’s yours, just take it and spend it on whatever you want I know you want out, and I respect you for that That’s a parting ways gift, kind of like severance pay," he joked, winking at me playfully

I opened my mouth to make another protest but the car pulled up into a workshop parking lot

Immediately ue with him about the money after I shoved the paper into the pocket of ers brushed over Ellie’s panties that I’d confiscated earlier

Brett sat forward in his seat, telling Ed to turn the car around and park near the door just in case I looked out of the ; it looked like the other people were already here There were four expensive looking cars parked even though it was half eleven at night now Lights were already aglow in the workshop, casting an eerie glow over the parking lot I spotted a couple of Brett’s guys getting out of their cars and heading over towards us, and another car pulled in behind us