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Annie is silent the entire hour drive to Boston I’er seat She alternates between picking at her nails and shaking her leg In anyone else, those habits would driveeven

She’s nervous

She probably should be I’m not sure e’re about to walk into There are two possible scenarios I see One, the Irish could be letting Johnny rack up soain Or two, they could be hoping to kill hi they probably saw as Johnny crying to the Italians

Italians and Irish don’t mix Never have

The Irish criest fans of the DelGados They really didn’t care for Italians at all and the drama between them and la Faht have gone toe to toe with the sons of the O’Connor fahters and as far as I know, they are all awful Liaht, out at a bar not owned by la Faone, and caused quite a bit of trouble getting hih To oons are scum

Now that they know Johnny is connected to et to me It doesn’t help much that Johnny Byrne is the dumbest son of

a bitch I’ve ever ht

But I ood man, but I am a man of my word I’ve never been stuck on a woman like I am Annie

Da to be my weakness

Into have

I just need to get through the Pearce job and then I’o I’ll delete her number from my phone and rid myself of Annie Byrne

Yeah

Right

Frank and Tony are already at the casino e arrive

“You should stay in the car,” I tell her as I pull the Porsche under the grand porte-cochere in front of the casino