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“Hey What are you doing here?” I saw his eyes sweep over s were bare under the heh One of his dark eyebrows danced upward and the corner of his rin

I cocked my head to the side and lifted an eyebrow back at him “What’s up with the used-car lot over there? Those aren’t your usual flavor”

His gaze skated over the line of cars and he sighed “You want the truth or you want me to lie to you?”

I rolled my eyes at him and stood onhands settled on s where he was leaning against the car

“Truth”

“People who gamble don’t think They throw -ter works is if the person has soame, but he’s smart Way smarter than Novak ever was Dead uy’s ride and he knows you’re serious Pay up or your car goes bye-bye Those are the cars waiting for their owners to pay up”

“And those cars got here how, exactly?”

He grinned down atin the center of his obsidian-tinted gaze

“Just consider me a repo man of sorts I didn’t steal them to chop them up I just borrowed them to help your brother out”

“And if the owners don’t pay up?”

“Possession is nine-tenths of the law So far everybody wins”

“Until someone turns you in”

“The Point doesn’t work like that, Copper-Top Bad places have bad people and bad people have bad vices Race is taking a risk, but he’s filling a need that was always gonna be there I’ll keep an eye on it, Titus isn’t stupid and isn’t going to let it get out of hand, but for now it’s working and let’s just leave it at that Nohy don’t you tellall shiny-eyed and happy?”

I pressed ue with his, and used et over how solid and sturdy he felt against led in the ends of ainst roup horeat job that will let me really help the kids, more money, and no more weekends away I wanted to celebrate, so really I wanted you”