Shannon

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After going back and forth with Matthew, he eventually let me keep my clothes on. It took a bit of sweet-talking and playing the good girlfriend card for him to concede. It wasn’t making sense that he wanted me to strip naked to prevent a few sachets of his drugs from going missing. Stealing was out of the question.

Matthew tapped on a bell at the edge of the table, eliciting ring sounds to get the attention of his workers. “I will be brief because this shipment needs to be dropped off before midday,” he said, placing his arm over my shoulder and tugging me close to him....