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I pick upto inform her of the list of chores I want Payton to do I honestly don’t give a crap what she does My house is spotless, but I like to keep her on her feet So, tonight, instead of the gy to have her redo my pantry

It’s not a nice task to thrust upon her

Chef will be pissed

I’ll tell Gail to skip on the laundry and let Payton do that, too

Yep

Gail can throw in soood measure Maybe I’ll tell her to make them extra dirty beforehand Spill soht makes me smile

With a shake of my head, I focus my attention back on the call Gail isn’t happy with my tasks She’s officially joined the dark side Actually, for a second, her change in loyalties makes me consider the possibility that my side is the dark side

But I push that thought out and hang up the call

I stare at the computer screen in front of me

My fingers hit the keyboard The tapping drowns out everything else

I spend the next few hours researching coood investment

Then when it’s ti, and leave to meet Lorenzo I trust my men, as I hired them all from Jax, but you never can be too careful After all, they let Paul past them earlier

Traffic is a bitch today, and it takes a good forty-fiveonto the docks, it looks to be in its usual abandoned state, but I know better

I pull up, shut the car off, and get out

Heading inside, I throw open the heavy metal door In the corner, I can see that they have a ine it’s one of Tobias’s shipments of pills

He’s trying to get out

Well, he’s gotten out of most

No longer selling cocaine or heroin, the only thing he still has his hands in is Molly

I iine, by the time next year comes, he’ll be fully out

Or that’s the hope, at least

Like I said, no one really leaves

Since he knows I’ at the table, a tumbler of scotch in his hands

I walk over to hilass he left for ers

“Well,” he drawls, leaning back, “since you reached for that drink pretty fast, I have to iood”

“To be honest, I’h