Where Loyalties Lie (2020)
by Jill Ramsower
(#6 in The Five Families (Short Story))


Where Loyalties Lie
๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐ผ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›, ๐ผ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘“๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ.

๐—˜๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜†
I left my family and everything I knew.
Hid myself away where no one would find me.
I thought I was safe. Untraceable.

I was wrong.

Now, thereโ€™s only one thing I can do if I want to stay alive.
๐˜™๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ.

๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ฟ
I like to think I help balance the scales of good and evil, one payday at a time.
No messy red tape.
No long, drawn out legal proceedings.
Just me, my mark, and a mountain of sins.

Some might ask who I was to play judge and jury about another manโ€™s worth.
I would say, piss off. No one asked you.

Most of my targets are just another dayโ€™s work, but her? Sheโ€™s different.
I feel an unrelenting need to lay my eyes on all of her coveted secrets.
To learn the extent of her corruption and see how it compares to my own.

She thinks she can escape me.
Iโ€™ll never let her go.
Pages:
282
Published:
2020-07-15
Genres:
ASIN:
B087NFDQQZ