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To his credit, Preston pulled his shit together faster than ht “When there’s the possibility your membership will be revoked because Junior acted like an ass? Safe to say Daddy’s ht?”

“Yeah Don’t knohat I’ll do with my spare time, but I’ll be back as soon as I can”

His boss nodded slowly Too slowly Soh his mind

“Anything else you wanted to say, sir?”

“Rewatched the footage before I came down here”

No response was the safe response now

“Awfully good at your job, Irish”

“Yessir”

“Even wonder if it’s getting too easy?”

Every damn day “Your point, sir?”

“Would hate to see you take a giant fucking step back”

He got the e Preston didn’t spook easily, so heon that video that bothered him Worse, Zeke didn’t knohat it could have been He’d been too wrapped up in thecalm that always came for him

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p; There was little he could say other than, “Understood, sir”

Preston straightened “Take care of yourself, Irish”