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I throw back my drink

“Shit You’re serious,” he says on a gasp

I slalass on the table and nod “You know I never kid about shit like this”

“What the hell’s been going on between you two? I mean, I know you trailed her for a bit…”

“Nothing I’d never disrespect her or Psycho like that I want to do it proper”

“You want to die,” Wizard says with a snort

“Come on, man He can’t keep her under lock and key forever”

“Don’t o at seventeen”

I roll my eyes

“All I’ is tread carefully with this, brother, and maybe make sure she feels the sa block,” Wizard adds

“Yeah, you got a point”

“I usually do Look, you know I don’t like to get into brother’s business, so we never had this conversation, and I don’t know anything But if you hurt Blue… I’ets done”

“Understood”

Wizard pats ood people, Shadow She could do worse”

A smile flickers across et froood I couldn’t talk like this to my old man He had this ancient old world code he followed to the letter I could never get hi with the tie to happen The things that applied when Kings of Chaos was founded in the late sixties were antiquated The bylaw that excluded any African Americans was one of thelance across the room and zero in on Dixie Rose