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The Runaway and the Enforcer

Beau, thirty-five, is a gangland enforcer who has gone into hiding rather than following the orders of his boss, Mercer, to harm a rival's kid. Now, all Beau wants to do is eliminate Mercer before getting out of town. When Rick, an eighteen-year-old denizen of the streets, witnesses Beau killing one of Mercer's men who has found him, Beau takes Rick under his wing instead of killing him, as well. He offers Rick a place to stay while he figures out how to put his plan to take Mercer out into action -- without ending up dead himself. Befriending Rick is an act Beau may come to regret. Rick convinces Beau to take him along when he leaves town -- thus working his way into Beau's dangerous life on the run -- and perhaps, into his heart, if Beau can come to grips with the fact that Rick is half his age. Note: This story contains scenes of graphic violence.

Edward Kendrick · LGBT+

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51 Chs

Chapter 6

“You don’t go after normal citizens, or cops?”

“First off, killing a cop would be stupid. They don’t stop looking for the killer when that happens, which makes things harder for everyone, us and the other guys doing what we do.”

“And civilians?”

“In my defense, for what it’s worth, I haven’t killed any, and I wouldn’t.”

“What if you were ordered to deal with, oh, I don’t know, the wife or kid of one of your competitors, to teach the guy a lesson?”

Beau tapped his fingers together. “That’s why I’m sitting in a rented, furnished apartment, instead of in the house I own halfway across the city.”

Rick smiled. “So you do have some morals.”

“Damned few.” Beau smiled briefly. “One of them, maybe the only one, is that I won’t kill a kid, or harm one, no matter what.”

“Nice to know,” Rick replied dryly, “since you seem to think I’m a kid.”

Beau shrugged. “You’re under twenty-one, so in my book, you qualify.”

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