DIRTY ANGELS
A dress code enforced with a single raised eyebrow from the doorman.
Money flowed here like the bourbon, smooth, dark, and never quite clean. Everyone who mattered knew the truth, even if no one said it out loud. Dirty Angels laundered cash for the right people. Mafia money, old family money, the kind that came in duffels and left in wire transfers labeled “consulting fees.”
Ethan had been connected since before he married Lila, loose threads at first, then tighter knots. Favors traded for protection, protection traded for silence, silence traded for profit. The bar was the perfect front: busy enough to hide volume, exclusive enough to keep questions at bay.