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Prologue

Jasper ~ Before the Shooting

I looked out at the opening night crowd of wall-to-wall, sex-crazed bodies bu ecstatically to the ns danced in my head

As ht

The new and i success All three floors were packed with hornyand beautiful strip for cash

Others carind on the newly installed dance floor, and ht out damn near all the residents of the Green Zone, not to mention the people we’d done business with for years

Yeah, Sadie did it Again

I never doubted her Sadie wasn’t just ht anization for decades to cootiate deals out in the legit world and in the underworld She taughtjust plain mean

Well, my father Colm also had a hand in that lesson A heavy hand, usually balled into a fucking fist

I shook off thoughts of my bastard of a father and pushed away from the desk inside the tiny office in the back of Lucky Lopez and s of sweaty, drunk bodies to the bar

“Velvet Fire Make it a double,” I barked over the din to the bartender

One of the new girls Sadie and Thorin and shoved her tits out to great effect She had a great pair of tits, big and meaty, more than a handful and best of all, they were perfectly round and full

The Lucky Lopez t-shirt she as cut into a low vee, ripped and tied into a knot at the waist to show off her hot young body

“Here ya go, Mr Ashby” It was a s drinks They would bring in more cash which meant we could clean even more money

“Thanks” It ht have been a s all these new people around I didn’t know these people, which meant I couldn’t trust them I didn’t knoas in their lives or who those people knew and loved, hated or owed h the club, sipping on soood whiskey

“Jasper!” Hulu smiled at me over the crowd and wavedas fuck, spent a few hours aly to cause trouble

“What’s up?” I stood beside the overgrownlike a child at six-foot-two

“Lots of people here tonight”