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“I’m sure you have been,” Carolyn said of Mason’s head Brewmaster. Matt was his brother.

“When I get a chance. I know what I saw at Ben’s wedding and I’m making sure everyone else knows I’m calling it too.”

“Because that is what we do,” she said proudly and stomped her foot.

Jolene laughed. “Are you trying to prove a point to me or yourself?”

“My husband who is shaking his head at me,” she said.

“Tell your husband he only wishes he had our skills,” Jolene said.

“I tell him that all the time, but once more won’t hurt.”

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“Iappreciate you meeting me after work,” Dillion said on Thursday.

“Not a problem,” Trent said. “I know it’s difficult for you to get time off at the last minute. You’ve not heard anything else from the Cannons?”

Jax looked at Dillion. He’d said he’d like to be with her as support for this meeting but had told himself he wouldn’t say too much.

He did trust that she’d keep him up to date on what was going on though.

“No,” she said. “Tomorrow is the thirty-day mark from when I received the letter. We all agreed to do nothing and see their next move.”

He wasn’t so sure he agreed with that, but Trent had advised Dillion to sit back and wait too.

As patient and laid back as he was, waiting for answers on something like this wasn’t his nature.

He was more likely to take charge and direct the narrative to his side.

The fact Dylan Patrick agreed with him made him feel better, but he also knew that Dillion and her father were butting heads on it, so it was best for him to not voice the fact her father sided with his approach.

“I’m positive you’ll receive something next week,” Trent said.

“What did you find out about them?” she asked. Dillion turned her head to Jax and he reached his hand over and threaded their fingers together.

“I’ve got a report here detailing what Zander discovered,” Trent said. “He didn’t dig too deeply just yet, but he can. This is more of a baseline. Where they live, any arrest records, employment history. That kind of thing.”

He saw the manila envelope in front of Dillion, but she was making no move to open it.

“Can you summarize it for me?” she asked. “Or I can read this.”

“I’d planned on talking to you about it. Zander would have been here, but he got stuck on another case.”

Zander Conway, another one of the Fierce matchups. Jax knew Zander and Regan were getting married in less than a month.

Hard not to know these things when the Fierces were always bragging about their successes.

“That’s fine,” she said. “You set this up. If I need more, I can meet with him.”

“Hopefully you won’t,” he said.

“I hope not,” she said, “but something tells me this isn’t over yet.”

Jax didn’t think so either.

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