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Rebel

August

“Hey, Bobby, think we could close up early tonight?” There were only a handful of people in the bar he owned and I worked at, and it looked like roup of guys came in, every one of them already drunk off their asses

“Fuck,” Bobby lasses “Not these sons of bitches”

“Who are they? I’ve never seen them in here before”

“ABT Every last one of ’em”

“Aryan Brotherhood?” I whispered

Bobby turned his back to them and kept his voice real low “Keep quiet and watch yourself, Rebel I’ive Mac a call” Mac was Bobby’s brother and the Sheriff of Hays County

I finished washing the glasses and then hollered at the guys who had just coet you, fellers?”

“Hell, I’ll take soar if you’re offerin’ Whaddaya think, Possuar too? I don’t mind sharin’”

The man closest to lass I’d been rinsing crashed to the floor and shattered

I’d never forget those eyes They were black as coal with hardly any white around the pupils The last tiht my mama died I’d made a promise in the days that followed her death that if I ever saw theed to Possuuy had called him, and it sure as fuck fit

Before I could respond, Bobby came around from the back and walked to the end of the bar where I knew he kept a gun “We’re fixin’ to close, boys”

“We can get ’em one for the road, Bobby” I looked directly at the black-eyed man “What’s your poison, Possuaze fixed on the bastard who’d killed my mama

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Edge

I had three hts in Texas, and then I had to fly to Boston—a place I had zero interest in going, for a reason I didn’t give a shit about

If it were for work, that would be different If there was a mission to be had, I was the first to raise ulations of MI5 behind and was a partner in the Invincible Intelligence and Security Group

A partner’s wife had first called us the Invincibles, and it took Yeah, it sounded cocky as shit, but we all were, so what the hell?

I’d tried to get my best friend, Miles “Grinder” Stone, to coht, but he was in what I referred to as his dark place

The man had PTSD from a deployment with ISAF—the International Security Assistance Force—a NATO-led security h to respect the ti

I could’ve invited Cortez “Rile” DeLéon, the eldest of the four partners, but that would be al out with my secondary school headmaster