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It’s pretty ideal really. It’s got everything I need already in place and there’ll be all those butch men next door wanting to look even more butch.”
    “Just as long as you’re not in the gym flirting and distracting people. You stay on your side of the fence. Got it?”
    “Got it,” she smiled, looking and feeling happier.
    “It’ll do you good to have something of your own, as long as the business is entirely legitimate. No dealing, no dodgy deals. Nothing.”
    “Please Mikey, I’m not a fucking idiot.”
    No, he thought, she was far from stupid and that was what scared him.

CHAPTER 4
     
    “So what do you think?” said Jared.
    Katia nodded approvingly. They were in an ex-B&B, twelve rooms, all designed for discretion and privacy. The building had fallen into Jared’s hands when the owner threw himself off a motorway bridge. Whether that was with or without assistance Katia didn’t know or care. All she could focus on was the fact that she was moving onto bigger and better things.
    “I like it very much, but it’s going to need some work.”
    “The decorator’s already been hired. I’ll leave all that in your hands, I’m sure you have good taste.”
    “I do,” she said proudly. “It will be beautiful and worthy of its clientele.” She gave him a sly, sideways glance. “We will have better clientele?”
    “I’ve already got some of my contacts on standby. They can’t wait to test the goods.”
    “The new women will arrive in two days,” she said. “Four of them. They will be healthier and more attractive than what we have now.”
    “Except Irina. Remember, she goes with no man but me,” said Jared firmly.
    “I haven’t forgotten. She is yours.”
    He relaxed. “Good.”
    Jared seemed to be in a good mood so Katia decided now might be a good time. “Have you thought over my proposal to take down the Laws?”
    His brow furrowed. “I have and I still can’t see what’s in it for me.”
    Katia inhaled sharply. Was this man as spineless as his father, who had actually been afraid of Ryan and Rachel? “They are very close to the Maguires. If you hurt them they will be focused so much on finding who did it that they won’t be watching their businesses, leaving you free to step in.”
    “They’ll be hunting who did it and they’ll come straight here. I don’t want to fight them.”
    Katia had to swallow hard to force down her disgust at his weakness. “Mikey is just a boy…”
    “Mikey Maguire is a powerful leader. Why can’t you get that through your fucking thick skull you daft bitch?” he bellowed in her face.
    There was a moment’s silence as Katia wiped his spittle off her face. “I have met him, seen him up close. He is weak and with a push he’ll fall.”
    “You’re just trying to get me to do your dirty work for you and I don’t like being used. I’m doing you this favour because you helped me get rid of my useless fucking ponce of a dad once and for all, but don’t think I won’t bury you too if you piss me off.”
    Katia held her head high. She had to do this to protect her twin babies, Alex and Daniel. “I am trying to help you Jared, just like you are helping me. Alex told me everything about his businesses. I know who his contacts were, how he ran things, businesses Mikey is now running, including his deal with The McVay’s.”
    Jared had gone quiet and was listening intently.
    “I can tell you everything and you can use it against them. The Maguires still have many enemies. They have been top for too long and it’s time they fell.” When he gazed off into the distance, thinking things through, she whispered in his ear like the devil on his shoulder, “go on, give them a push.”
    “You said you know about their deal with the McVay’s? Couriers, routes, that sort of thing?”
    She nodded. “Alex was training me to be his second. He didn’t trust anyone else after his family turned against him, after everything he’d done for them, they were so