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“Okay,” he said around a set soet, Billy-boy, is that I don’t have to be here I don’t seek you out to getyour ass You’re the one who keeps crawling back tofor ame of choice? Craps?”

The MC had a very lucrative loan sharking business, fueled by idiots like Bill who couldn’t see, the money their clients owed added up fast, especially if they missed the fourteen-day payback timeline In that case, the fifty percent interest was added to the original loan and recalculated After another teeks, Zach caentle rereement

“I asked you a question, Billy” Zach stood and swung the bat like he was chasing a hoh the air at least three feet above Bill’s head, but he still curled tighter with his head cradled in his arms

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Like Zach would actually bash the man’s head in Men with splattered brains couldn’t pay back their loans But men with broken kneecaps sure could And usually did, very fast

Those results hy a hefty bat was Zach’s motivator of choice He could show up at a client’s house with a gun, but then he’d have to shoot sometimes, and that was undesirable for a number of reasons First off, it was messy as hell Who had time to clean blood anyway?

Then there was the bullet, which if removed and collected for evidence, could be traced back to Zach and the MC Exactly the opposite of what Copper wanted from him in his job as enforcer for the club And lastly, there was always the chance he’d miss the mark and kill some poor schmuck that owed them money

And again Dead men couldn’t pay

For the same reasons, he stayed away from knives His own fists would work just fine, but then he’d be walking around with permanently bruised knuckles

So, a bat it was Clean, effective, untraceable

Good stuff

“You pussing out on rand on”

“P-poker” A nasty cough followed a wheeze as Bill struggled to a sitting position Sweat dotted his receding hairline and his skin took on a grayish pallor

“Deep breaths, buddy Got your diaphraguess I really do enjoy this shit Hey, Bill, anyone ever tell you that you suck at poker? Now, I shouldn’t be giving you this advice since I’ll be eating a nice steak dinner on you soon, but you ht wanna find a new hobby”

“Th-this is the last ti his portly stomach “I s-swear it”

“Well…” Zach spun the bat like a baton twirler He’d spent so much time with it over the last few years, he’d mastered some fancy tricks “Don’t quit on’round and busting kneecaps Which re You’re up to twenty-two thousand, five hundred now I’ll be back in teeks You don’t have it, I take this as collateral” He rapped the bat against the tire of theold house you can’t afford and start crying to your wife Maybe she’ll take pity on your pathetic ass and crack into her trust fund”

Zach started down the driveway then spun and pointed the bat at Bill as still on his ass in the driveway “Oh yeah Alot I’ll break a bone too My choice”

That announceasp from Bill He’d always cut it close in the past, but this was the first time he’d been late to repay a loan Zach shook his head Loan sharking was one of the club’s most lucrative businesses And Zach’s baby Well, at least the bone crushing side of it Jigsaw, the club’s treasurer, ran the financial side of things

Copper was the brains behind the entire operation About fourteen years ago, when he was voted in as prez, the club was a fuckinwere the main sources of inco to survive Cops were sniffing around Wars with other MCs and a local gang over turf almost destroyed the entire operation

Copper hauled the club away froe, a bar, a strip club, and eventually Zach’s gy Of course, as an outlaw MC, they didn’t do everything on the shiny side of the law Loan sharking, , and a fair amount of muscle for hire kept the club lubed with plenty of cash