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She didn’t let me stick around for her first ride. Said it made her too nervous, and that meant Prancer would be nervous too.
So I spent the morning with her father, hammering things out like two above-board colleagues in a board room instead of male rivals born to wrestle the affections of one female, one he’d fathered, one I’d daddied, from each other.
Our cause for collaboration was legitimate, not profit driven.
To keep Gabriela safe.
There was enough residual tension between the Jaliscos and the Sinaloans to last a lifetime.
“We get the General five additional points of syndicate profits and he’ll be incentivized to drop his grudge against you.” I said.
Serrano clasped his hands over his head protectively, “Money doesn’t always motivate a killer, Drago. He's a weapon
