RILEY
The commission was a custom chopper for a musician — I'm not allowed to use his name but if I told you which band, you'd know — and it was the biggest single job Redline & Redemption had ever taken on. Two hundred and forty thousand dollars for a full rebuild, custom frame modification, hand-painted tank with an original design based on the album artwork from his first record. A museum piece that would also run.
I called Knox.
I didn't mean to call Knox. I meant to call Mara, which is who I call first for business news because Mara handles the numbers side and also because she gets it — she's seen what this shop has been and what it's becoming and she understands what a commission like this means. I meant to call her. I dialed Knox.
He picked up on the second ring.
"We got the H
