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Chapter 56: Perfect Plan
"Hold on, man, are you serious right now? We can't go after Rex yet his reach is too deep in this town. If we try something on him tonight, there's a real chance none of us walk out of this club." Marcus meant every word of it. Taking on Duke, he had some confidence. But Rex Dalton was an entirely different animal, and even saying the name out loud made something tighten in his chest.Still, when Marcus glanced over and saw how calm Jake looked, standing there like none of this weighed on him at all, it threw him off balance more than he wanted to admit. Jake slung an arm around Marcus's shoulders, easy and unbothered."Relax, big brother. Leave this one to your little brother. Anybody who's your enemy is my enemy too simple as that. Tonight I want to see if this Rex Dalton really does grow a second head when he's cornered."Grace, standing just off to the side, felt a warm little thrill climb up her spine listening to him talk like that. In her eyes, nothing ever seemed to faze Jake.
Chapter 55: You're Courting Death
Jake and Grace climbed into the sports car, trailed by a small convoy of vans, and the whole group rolled up to the club in style. The place was called Prince's Row, and even from outside, Jake could tell business was booming. The lot was packed, the bass already thumping through the walls. One of the private rooms upstairs, though, was carrying a much heavier mood than the rest of the club.Inside that room sat a dark, heavyset man with a permanently sour expression Duke Sanders flanked by several waitresses kneeling on the floor, clearly terrified. Duke had recently tried running a batch of ecstasy through the club, and these girls had botched the handoff badly."Mr. Sanders, we didn't mean for it to happen. Who could've guessed Marcus would show up last night? The second he found out we were moving pills for you, he confiscated the whole batch and dumped it straight in the trash. Please, give us one more chance." The kneeling waitresses were shaking, genuinely terrified.Marcus had
Chapter 54: Recycling Stockings
"Believe whatever you want, honestly. And for the record I've already got a gorgeous woman in my life who'd be more than happy to keep me company. Why would I need your stockings for that?" Jake's response left Grace completely without a comeback.She opened her mouth to fire something back, but Jake had already jogged off. What she hadn't noticed was that the stockings in his hand had already vanished, recycled and gone.[Successfully recycled: one pair of stockings, 2,000 points. Confirm purchase of Military Combat Form? Purchase confirmed 1,500 points deducted.]A cascade of system prompts flooded Jake's mind, and his pulse spiked with excitement. Standing alone in the room, fighting sequences and technique after technique started flashing through his consciousness unbidden. Jake threw a few experimental combinations into the air, immediately feeling the shift in his own body faster, tighter, more deliberate. Within minutes, the entire style had settled fully into muscle memory.Fi
Chapter 53: A Huge Misunderstanding
Honestly, if it weren't for Jake's system, this entire shipment would have been worthless, not even sellable as scrap. For both Jake and Marcus, this was shaping up to be a serious payday. Jake allowed himself a satisfied smile before turning to Marcus with a more focused look."We're doing the handoff tonight. Take me to meet this Duke Sanders character first. I want to see exactly what kind of legend has you this rattled. Let's see how he holds up."Jake meant every word of it. He hadn't known Marcus long, but he'd never seen the guy this worked up before which told him plenty about how much of a headache Duke actually was.Marcus burst out laughing at the offer. "Man, if you're serious about this, I can rally the crew right now and surround every club we run tonight. That'll make Duke think twice before trying anything else. What do you say?"Jake didn't have strong feelings either way on the specifics, but he did have one piece of advice to offer."Don't bring too many guys, thoug
Chapter 52: Absurd People
"Come on, man, get up here and see this for yourself. Moment of truth time. Curious what kind of money this stuff's actually going to pull in." At Jake's words, Marcus burst out laughing.He threw an arm around Jake's shoulders, grinning ear to ear. "Not gonna lie, little brother Hank's appliances were genuinely garbage. Lucky for us, Danny's old contact wait, no, I mean, Duke's got a couple fresh buyers lined up. Get this batch finished today, and we can move the whole thing tonight."Jake caught the confident tone in Marcus's voice, but a knot of unease tightened in his gut anyway."Hold on, you just said these are new contacts. No track record, nothing solid? And you're planning to deliver tonight? We should bring more muscle along for this."Marcus sighed. "Jake, I won't sugarcoat it. The buyer tonight goes by Hawk. Used to run a trafficking operation, women, kids, the whole ugly business. Cleaned himself up some in recent years, or so the story goes, but he's still got blood on h
Chapter 51: The Girl's Proposal
"Last chance, do you still want to go through with this boyfriend thing? Back out now, and I'll let it go." Jake took a steadying breath, forcing his thoughts back onto solid ground.To his surprise, Grace didn't budge. "No way! You saw everything, so why shouldn't you have to deal with the consequences? Who else is going to want to date me after this? You're my boyfriend now, officially but don't think that means you get to force anything. That part has to actually mean something. Nobody wants a twisted melon."Something about her blunt, unshaken confidence sent an unwelcome spark of heat through Jake's chest. He reached over and grabbed a nearby cleaver off a table which made Grace flinch hard, genuinely afraid for a second that he meant to silence her for good. Instead, Jake gripped it with both hands and twisted the blade clean out of shape, bending solid steel like it was aluminum foil."See that? You want this boyfriend thing to actually happen, strip. Otherwise, that's what hap
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