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“After I got locked up, right?”

Gus looked at me and stacked his hands on his potbelly

“A feeeks before He was all about getting the girl,like you Novak would pay, he was tired of Novak pulling strings, then things went south and he disappeared I don’t knohy he brought the girl back here, put her not only in his old man’s face but in Novak’s as well, but he must have had a plan”

I couldn’t believe Race knew about Dovie before I went to jail He had never said anything, never mentioned he was in trouble It didn’t add up and I didn’t like the way everything was circling back to the redhead

“Right before he disappeared, Race was flashing a picture around, asking a bunch of questions about so about it?”

“Yeah It’s his old man”

I blinked stupidly and rocked back on my heels “What?”

Gus kicked his feet off the desk and luured that the only person his old man would’ve asked to handle the dirty as Novak He was trying to put the two of theot back into town”

“What exactly are we talking about e say ‘dirty work,’ Gus?”

“You know Novak, Bax What do you think?”

I swore and followed Gus back into the garage, where welders and air hoses ht his dad had asked Novak to kill Dovie, that ht What in the hell kind of tangled mess had Race wandered into?

We stopped by a pile of rust that would be one badass ride with a little work There was nothing like old irl”

Gus looked at me out of the corner of his eye and leaned on the fender “The sister? How do you know?”

I just lifted an eyebrohichto kill you He loves that girl so her safe Benny and his goons are all over her, and I’ interference”

“You run interference hat’s in your pants?”

“I told you she eet, and apparently she played a bigger part in Race going to ground than I thought I need to figure this shit out It looks like I ht have to take a trip up to the Hill”

“Be careful Those people would like nothing more than to put you back behind bars You took a lot of their really nice stuff”