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I shrug with my hands. “She’s all I got, man. Not much else to go on.”

“Research, huh? What kind of research?”

“I’m not quite sure yet. She’s lying about that too. Not all of what she told me was a lie, some of it

felt real. But she left a lot of shit out, that’s for sure. Anyway, it can’t be good. Nothing they do is

good.”

“Well, you can’t go today. You just have to wait until tomorrow when I have your whole list of

supplies. So why don’t you just relax and…you know, get to know this girl a little better?”

I take a deep breath, slouch down in my chair a little, and let the stress of the past five years settle

for a moment. “I think I can do that.”

“You got anyone else helping you?”

“Jesse and Joey are on Key West right now. So they’re close.”

Logan puts up a hand. “Hold up here. Your brothers? That’s your backup?”

“They know, Logan. I told them what was up last month.”

“But they’re not like you, Johnny. They’re not like us.”

I shrug. “They’re really all I got.”

Logan pulls out his phone and starts texting. “Well, you just became my client. Consider it a gift.

I’m gonna get a team together.”

“Nah, man. Just stay out of it. We can—”

“You cannot,” he says, still texting. “Jesse and Joey aren’t pussies. I’m not saying that.” He leans

forward in his chair and locks eyes with me. “But have they ever even killed anyone?”

“Not that I know of.”

Logan leans back. “My point. Let me take care of it. I have a nice, tight team going here.”

“AJ?” I ask.

“Fuck, no.” He laughs. “AJ is Mr. Father of the fucking Year these days. Dude hasn’t killed anyone

since I took one for the team and sent him to Mexico. He’s been living the normal life for too long to

bring him in on this. Plus, if something ever happens to me at least Yvette and the kids will still have

him.”

“Well, Jesse has this girl. Emma’s her name. And Emma’s got these brothers, you know? Big fuckin’ dudes. They run some deep-sea fishing, diving, adventure shit down on West. She kinda

offered up their services last month. So I could enlist them if I need to.”

Logan is shaking his head the entire time I’m talking. “No civilians. And anyway, it’s done. Stop