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The twelve identical boxes were filled with equal amounts of banded hundred-dollar bills.

“Holy. Shit.” Baker gawked. “What did we stumble onto?”

“Looks like a Federal Reserve withdrawal,” Ally said.

“Someone’s going to be pissed,” Baker said.

“How much you think it is?” Cash asked.

“We’ll know in a few minutes,” Baker said. “It’ll be easy to count.”

Half an hour later, there was a mountain of bills stacked in front of us. Based on the staggering amount, we knew the investigation regarding its whereabouts wasn’t going to end any time soon.

“I feel like we should count it again,” Baker said.

“No need,” Ally retorted. “They’re stacked twenty-five high, that’s two hundred and fifty grand. Three wide is seven fifty, and they’re fourteen deep. It’s ten million, five hundred. Plus the drawer.”

“Drawer was sixteen grand and change,” Reno said.

“Just shy of two million each, after the club’s cut,” Baker said. “Damned nice.”

“I can’t believe we stumbled onto this,” Tito said. “The odds of encountering a Federal Reserve withdrawal are staggering.”

“I can’t believe we got away,” Reno said. “That fucking cop came out of nowhere.”

“I can’t believe Ally still got virgin skin,” Cash said.

We all looked at him like he was crazy.

“What the fuck are you talking about?” I asked.

Cash gestured to Ally. “Need to get our sister a tattoo. She’s a member of this fuckin’ club. We need to start treating her like one.”

I struggled not to smile.

Baker nodded. “We’ll need to have a vote, and—”

“All in favor of Ally being a full-fledged member of the Devil’s Disciples respond with an aye,” Cash said, “All opposed, nay.”

“Aye.”

“Aye.”

“Aye.”

“Aye.”

Cash looked at Baker and raised his brows. “Well?”

“Aye, motherfucker,” Baker said with a smile. “You’d have heard me say it the first time if all you prick’s weren’t talking at once.”

Cash looked at Ally. “Looks like you’re in, shorty.”

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Ally

I waited two anxious weeks for my tattoo. Shirtless and sprawled out on a century-old leather-wrapped operating table, I was ready to get the process underway.