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I followed hi in behind us More andthe room wall to wall

“Glad to have you back, bro,” Ba my back Others followed, and I was surprised that even the Devil’s Jacks took a minute to welcome me Hadn’t realized until thataround my people My family

“So, here we are,” Pic said, calling the h these past weeks”

“Saw the picture of the bitch you had to bang,” Hunter said “Sounds like it was rough”

Laughs, which I chose to ignore, echoed around the room

“Pretty sure she has teeth lining her cunt,” I told them “Believe ht ass fool you The real issue here is her brother, Marsh We’ve all suspected for a long ti their cut from the cross-border traffic, and I’ve seen it for hthawks are falling apart as a club Dysfunctional as hell If they were paying, we’d still have to step in at this point, because the whole situation’s a fucking tiht in nothing but useless pieces of shit and noe have to soe the situation or we’ll lose control of the territory”

Hunter’s face turned serious

“How’d that happen?” he asked

“Most of the leadership and the old guard went down in a raid, all at the sa time Marsh stepped into the power vacuum We probably should’ve shut it down then, but we had no idea how toxic he was at that point, and they were holding up their end of the bargain”

“There are a feho’ve gotten out since then,” I added “Four of them—Cord seems to be their leader Wish I could tell you iven that I’m one of Marsh’s scabs, at least in their eyes”

“And none of them went down this weekend?” Hunter asked

“Nope,” I said “I haven’t seen any of theo out with us on Friday night and e He kept us all in the clubhouse that night, asking questions and looking for traitors Full-on paranoia I don’t knohere they are, but they weren’t with him”

“They’re out at the clubhouse right now,” Picnic said “Waiting to talk to us about what happened Cord got in touch as soon as he heard the news Sounds to ht You think that’s possible?”

I considered the question carefully, weighing our options

“Tough call,” I finally admitted “If I knew Cord better, I’d have a better answer for you I don’t think that he’s an enemy to the Reapers I think he was outnumbered, so he waited for his moment There’s still a lot of brothers on the inside, brothers who are good hthawks, not Marsh and his crew”

“So we let him step in?” Pic asked