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I don’t know if Nero actually has a gun on him, but the twoWe leave the back toward our cars

“Didn’t know you could fight, rich boy,” Nero says, looking at me in mild surprise

“That wasn’t e,” I say The ood six inches shorter than me

Sho terrified he must be of Zajac He preferred to face the three of us rather than have to explain himself to the Butcher

“Still,” Dante says, “that was pretty fast”

“Shaking hands and slapping backs is new for et my hands dirty”

“Fergus kno to fight,” Dante says “They used to call him the Bone Doctor, didn’t they?”

He’s referring to my father’s stint as a debt collector and enforcer, before he took control of what remained of the Griffin family

“That’s right,” I say

My father could put a spiral fracture down a man’s arm with a twist of his wrist, if that’s as required to enforce the payment plan

He definitely taught ht otiate instead Because the outcoht is never certain

The probleotiate Not without spilling a little blood on the floor, first

Aida arrives home only a little after I do She comes up to the library, and I fill her in on e’ve been doing

I can tell she’s annoyed at being left out of theher along tonight, if that’s what she really wants

When she heads into our bedroom to drop off her books, Jack pokes his head into the library