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Velle invited me behind the counter to sit and eat and chat about what had been going on since I’d left

I’d left the area when I was young And I’d been so fucking angry at the time

I don’t think I stopped and thought about what I’d given up by leaving I mean, I hadn’t even tried to keep in touch with the only family that had ever tried to help me out as a kid

Velle was right

I’d lost a bit of myself in all my years away

Sure, I’d maintained parts too Like the part of me that snuck into Brandon Adams’s house to put a bullet in hio ahead and blame Bellamy for that

But co back reer part of nize that, but to act accordingly I needed to give back I needed to keep a finger on the pulse of the area

Maybe a part of host that still haunted me in this area, one I didn’t want to run into

That said, I was probably getting a little too old to be worried about that kind of thing anymore, either

I was going to have to deal with it all sooner or later

“So what kind of trouble are you in?” Velle asked, shaking his head as I opened my second pack of Yodels

“The kind that could havehard

“And?” he prompted

“And I can’t sneak up on him to handle it There’s a lot of security I alot… interrupted Now I just need to figure out how to handle it without getting close since he will know it’s et my family killed in the process”

“Hire out?” Velle suggested “That’s a nice jacket you got on,” he said, nodding at ht?”

“Ah, yeah,” I said, brows furrowing

“If you can afford that, you can afford to go out there and give one of the guys out there a reason to do the job for you”

That was true

I uys with such a high-profile target It would probably be a suicide mission for them

But I could see about hiring out

Hitmen weren’t as common as movies and TV liked to make it seem But they did exist And you could find them and have them do your dirty business for you if you had to That way, the target would never see it co while you sat pretty so an ironclad alibi should you need it