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filled her head with bullshit. I’d had
to put the brakes on my relationship with Lily for a few weeks that time. It
was the first time I’d realized the lengths my ex would go to to get her way. After I’d convinced my little princess that
no one was going to take daddy away I had had to work on smoothing that shit
out. In the end it had backfired on her mother though, because their bond was
now stronger than ever before.

 
    A three-year old
diamond shopping would put your ass in the poor house, just saying. She liked
the big shiny ones, typical girl, and Lily wasn’t much better. Lucky for both
their asses daddy came prepared with the black card or
there would’ve been some embarrassed people walking around that store.
    My places are
doing well enough that I could afford to get my girl the ring she wanted. In
fact we were doing better than I expected after the stories I’d heard about how
long it takes a new business to be in the black. The money I was banking now
made my cop’s pay look like child’s play even though as a detective and then
later lieutenant that hadn’t been too shabby either.
      But these days, the kind of money I made
could cover the four and five carat rocks my girls were mooning over. I know
this was going to be a problem for Deanna now too, and I was going to have to
deal with her shit in the coming weeks until things settled down again. Every
time she thought I was doing something for Lily that I hadn’t done for her
during our marriage she loses her shit, which makes no sense to me whatsoever.
    She never
wanted for anything when she was with me, but she knows had we made it she
would be able to live way above what she was now. The only reason she could
afford to live where she did now was because of my daughter and she knows it.
      You see we live in one of those states
that says if a man or woman is caught fucking around on their spouse, then that
spouse pretty much gets to clean their clock in the divorce, basically she’s
ass out. You’d think with that shit hanging over her head not to mention the
fact that I won sole custody of Holly that she’d straighten up and fly right,
but no. Every once in a while she shows her ass and gets slapped down.

 
    When my girls
were through picking out their baubles and I’d fed them I ran them back home.
Holly wanted to stay a little longer so I called her mom and dealt with her
bullshit while I was on my way to a meet. Sid and Dwayne were on ice but that
didn’t mean our jobs were done. One of the things you never see on the news or
in the TV specials is the fact that these assholes have family and friends that
believe in their innocence and are sometimes willing to go to great lengths to
get them out of whatever jam they find themselves in.
    With the court
date just days away the heat was on. We had a list of his nearest and dearest
and there were eyes on the few we thought might be trouble. So far no one had
done anything to raise any flags but there were whispers about jailhouse talk.
One of the best grapevines in the world could be found in prisons across the
country. I don’t know how these fucks pulled that shit off, but more than once
they’d proven to have more information than those of us on the outside. As a
cop I’d pulled on that thread plenty, now as an MC leader I had other uses for
it.
    I run my crew
like PD. I have a fugitive task force, a S.W.A.T. team
and men and women in place who are trained to deal with victims of domestic
violence and child abuse.
    Each team has
a lieutenant who reports back to me, because since we keep expanding that’s the
best way to handle shit. Every OP is run like a well-oiled machine and there’s
no room for fuck-ups. If shit goes south, which it seldom does, and I have the
need for protection for my boys, I call in Jake.

 
 
    Deke, D’angelo , Stryder , and their boys
Marcel and Nate were waiting for me at the clubhouse. The house was more like a
compound with a few buildings