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I s, struggling to digest what she’s saying I can’t even iht s have possibly been that she would consider that an answer to her problems?

“How did Tony knohat room you would be in?”

“I’d sneak a look at the guy’s rooot inside I never asked”

“Okay,” I say, trying to process everything she's telling ame? Blackmail?”

“Bingo,” she says with a sad smile

“It's always been about money with Tony, and this was no exception Once the deed was done, he’d reveal hi an underage girl He’d scare the guy with the usual ‘contact your wife, the police, FBI’Whatever needed to be done to secure a large payment”

“Fuck He horing you out,” Iidea where this cunt is, because I would kill him

“I was a willing participant, Ryder He didn’t force ”

“Then why did you do it?” I growl, frustrated

“Because it was the only way I could get rid of hi to do with it I just wanted hiht that this would do it”

“Did it?”

“Yes Until now, at least”

“Okay,” I sigh I need to think I’et my brain around this, but fuck it’s hard My whole perception of her has changed in an instant “So how uys did you blackmail?”

“Four The final one, he was the last straw When Tony burst in, the guy literally broke down and started crying He kept saying he had kids, and a ho he loved—and I k

now you don’t do that to soot to me, you know?”