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Chapter Thirty Five

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Alex

The Warehouse was quiet when I got there, the kind of quiet that made your ears ring. Mike and Sebastian pushed the two men through the door. They tripped on the wet floor, their hands were tied and their faces were bruised from the ride. They were breathing hard and looked scared.

I stood in the center of the empty warehouse letting the feeling of the place sink in. The walls smelled like rust and wet concrete, it was the perfect place where I handle businesses like this. My stomach was c
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