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“Nice try, Aldridge” He settles in the chair, feet still kicked up “Want to talk about the girl?”

“We aren’t woh of this pussy pillow talk shit”

“Fine, then let’s talkhis feet, all business now “Tobias is on ot”

“I’ll get hiures this week”

“He wants the figures now” His voice is cal, but there’s a threat beneath it all

There is always a threat with Cyrus Reed

If I were anyone else, I hted stare

“What’s the rush?”

“I think he’s done,” Cyrus declares, and I swear, you could hear a pin drop “I think he’s finishing the reot en route, and then he wants out”

I lean forward against my desk “Really?”

“Not sure He was on the cryptic side Per usual But yeah, he wants to kno h to retire” He shakes his head He knows as well as I do, there is no real retiring from this business

“He’s worth over seven hundred rin

Greedy bastard

“Enough to never have to work again and afford his security”

No truer words have ever been spoken because that’s the truth

It doesn’t it or out We all will need security for the rest of our lives

We have made too much money off the backs of others

We have ruined and screwed too many bad men

Men worse than us were sunk below for our rise to the top

So, even though most of my clients are already semi-retired from whatever they did to become so powerful, there will always be a mark on their backs

You don’t rule the underworld, leave, and suddenly go back to living a regular charolden retrieverhim

We all still have one foot in the door

Legit or not

Well, at least they do

Me, I’m still all in

I still ithempires, etc

And because of that, I need ways to make them money Sometimes, it’s just a way to clean the dirt froer purpose, and I need to find riskier investments that pay more