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Hulk stepped back once Roach’s sto to feel nauseated “Get rid of the body”
“Now?”
Ajax rolled his eyes “Not now, obviously It’s Saturday, there’s a party upstairs Dirty work’s gonna have to wait”
Roach spread his aronna have a corpse here and a cellar crawling with ots?”
“You should hardly mind” Hulk snorted and patted the cockroaches tattooed on Roach’s aro
Roach flinched, hating the familiar touch much more than he did the punches
Ajax put his ary old stairs, s as if someone had broken a bottle of Old Spice in an attempt to smash his skull in “Come on, I’m so done with this bullshit”
Roach was too He couldn’t wait to be out of the stinky tight quarters where he’d been stuck with two bears swiping their clawed paws at him for no reason
The heavy thud of rock and roll upstairs was relief, because the louder it was, the less he’d have to listen to Ajax’s self-important bullshit He sped up the narrow concrete stairs, itching to disappear into the crowd of visitors, and keep his distance fro He didn’t like to be alone with either of theen to nourish his lungs, even if it was dense with smoke and liquor vapors
With outsiders about, there wouldn’t be any more talk of dead bodies Roach could just pick out a perfect stranger who’d been invited there by a local friend, and live his life as soe for a moment Someone who didn’t have to dispose of poor fuckers who’d had thean enemy of the Rabid Hyenas MC
The band occupying the tiny stage in the back was a regular in the club bar, and while their show had less in common with music and more with the roar at a car factory occasionally disrupted by the vocalist wailing into the h At the end of the day, all the perforround noise for drinking and flirting If someone treated music as an art, they’d better look for it somewhere else
Sniffer shot Roach a tired glare froave hiuy could hold his drink so well he was unable to pretend the cacophony blaring fro but, and they both shared a silent eye roll Next to him, Norm was equally silent as he nursed his beer, but as e Roach in any way