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“Cut the crap, Sean What is really going on here?” She wasn’t used to hi any concern for what she’d been through when it came to him, and to be frank, she wasn’t interested either

She just wanted to et about him

Sean bowed his head “I know I’ve not been a good father to you”

“Really, you’re just thinking that through”

“I know you’ll never forgive me for what happened to your mother”

She glared at hiht to talk about her”

“She was my wife”

“Who you cheated on tiain, and she knew it She knehat you did, and all the times you did it I had to sit and watch her wish for you to come horitted her teeth, wanting to hurt him

“You’ve never forgiven me”

“I stopped hoping you were a betterbefore that monster came to our home You’re my father I share your blood, Sean, but to o because there’s no way he’d have ever let anything bad happen to his woman”

“Is Dawg treating you right?” Sean asked

She shook her head “You co that you’re bothering me”

He sood match I’m pleased you two finally found each other”

After that, she didn’t even stay to listen to any y to herher father was over She was done being the person he could rely on

Chapter Nine

“All the money came from one bet Louis Saint,” Paul said

Dawg listened to his brother as he stood back inside the gy tickets and notes that Ortiz had left out for hih

“So this was reedy?”

“Yes Louis Saint has been all ot a feomen on the streets, and he’s tried to poach from us before”

Daare of who Louis Saint was He ht they could take as rightly his The city had been his for a long time, and their father’s before the it back

Investh people in his pocket Heso, they looked the other way