We'd done things I wasn't particularly proud of.
Others I'd do again without losing a minute of sleep.
I thought about the women we'd pulled out of the facility. The babies. The evidence of what Ermes and his associates had done.
If Marcellus called tomorrow and told me he'd found another place like that, would I really refuse to help because I now had a packhouse to renovate?
Fuck no.
But I had Perse to think about. And Penny, Liam, and all the people who would eventually depend on us.
I wasn't going to promise Marcellus something I couldn't deliver.
"We discuss every job before accepting it," I said. "All three of us. No surprises, no hidden information, and no conveniently forgotten details that turn a simple retrieval into a f*****g bloodbath."
"That happened once."
"Three tim
