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“None of us do,” Dallas said “But the fact is, we don’t have a choice now A lot of family members have to clean up their relatives’ et that dustpan out and sweep up enough toneat and tidy, at least cover our tracks a little better than before With a Texas herd here, livestock buyers will be co in froet in here and take a look around now”
“And even easier for them to find justifiable cause for a warrant”
“Yep, that’s right, but we can’t run fro no one will snoop around and find what it is we don’t want anyone to find We gotta deal with this and we need to deal with it quickly”
“You don’t understand No one can afford the kind of stock we have except the mob”
“So we sell to them Look at us We’re not little fellas, Zak They have more to fear frouns, remember I say we make the transactions, contact the cartel, the mafia, and whoever else we need to tell Then we’re out and it’s over One last deal”
That was just it Brandon had been saying those very words for several ht One last deal should’ve been several transactions ago Unfortunately, they kept uncoveringin They had inherited a business that couldn’t be sold They were in an industry they couldn’t easily leave
He often wondered if that’s why his et out and had discovered quitting the business was not an option
Chapter Two
Zak orn down to a frazzle by the time they finished their honest day’s work Brandon hadn’t evenon the couch The others were dragging ass, slowlymuscles and tired bones
If Zak had thought he could make it to Drina’s, he would’ve already called and asked her if she felt like going sohtcap but the fact was, he didn’t have the energy to walk much farther than the shower He took the stairs one at a ti over the twenty-five steps as he unbuttoned his dirty shirt and shot it down the hallway laundry chute in passing
“Far off his jeans and underwear Leaving them in the laundry basket, he walked in the bathroom, turned on the water, and nearly fell asleep on his feet before the water temperature rose and he stepped in the shower He’d never been so exhausted in his life
A fewhis teeth He paused ahe could’ve heard his bedroohis teeth, flossing, and debating on a shave
“Nay,” he
He turned off the light and nized well, he tilted his head and inhaled the vanilla and lilac fragrance
For a split second, he thought he was just plain crazy about a woined her sweet scent, her perfu his rooht of her shapely silhouette in the ht, the natural curve of her body outlined in the darkness He sat on the edge of the bed, deciding to play this ga on him