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“Don’t fret,” Markie said, silently cursing his queasy gut “We’re evenly uys? They ain’t afraid of o ahead and tell the boys here about your ex’s family That e can walk outta here and knoho and e’re facing Sound fair to you?”

“It sounds fair, but it doesn’t ht fairly in these parts In case you haven’t heard, they have legendary family all over the world and worse than that are their current affiliations”

Markie leveled his gaze on one McCall then the other He finally settled on the outsider, the one most likely to tell him the truth “What kind of affiliations is she talkin’ about, Ryan?”

“Maf—”

“None of that’s ilances Markie and Draegan had been best friends long enough for Markie to translate with ease Whatever aiting beyond Sable’s room wasn’t exactly the kind of trouble they’d faced in the past

“What if I say it is?” Markie stood He glared at his friends and then the girl “Who is she really?”

>“I guess she can answer that better than we can,” Allister said

“Well?” Given the expression on her face, Markie expected her to up and say she had committed all sorts of crimes

“I’hter-in-law”

“Well how ‘bout that” He sed down a good dose of real fear He’d been half-right anyway If this had been the Wild, Wild West, her daddy-in-law’s picture would’ve been on all sorts of posters, the kind that read, Wanted Dead or Alive

Chapter Nine

Trouble, Tennessee’s founding fathers followed a set of predeteruidelines and rules were in place for a reason—to protect the innocent and keep the current occupants safe when bringing in a new resident

From the moment Harley McCall had received his brother Allister’s 9-1-1, he’d assuo down the way his brother had said no

This transfer was a dangerous one and considering the transport would roll through Trouble’s gates in about five istics Harley eyed the ht and then turned to his left Each ht tales

This was an ier twitched on a trigger