“Let’s skip the pleasantries, shall we? You and I both know we’re not here for small talk.” The long suit jacket and the clouded eye should’ve been funny how close it came to the stereotypes, but it was chilling when the one icy blue eye fell onto your throat as if just a look would slice through. I swallowed and kept my hands folded in front of me.

“I know there’s a bounty for me and I don’t need anyone killed because I know who put that bounty there.”

He raised an eyebrow. “No one knows who put that bounty there so how would you?”

“It’s- an old friend and I don’t want them hurt I just need you to get people that will keep watch for me. No one gets a clear shot of my head.”

“Then you’ll have to tell me who it is or I don’t do business.”

“Please I really don’t want them to get hurt I can’t…I just need the protection- please for not just me”

“This is for more than one person?”

“Well there’s only a bounty on me but someone may take my daughter to get to me and I need for her to be protected too. I have the money for it”

“I’m supposed to have them protect a child?”

“You don’t have to I mean I can find someone else but you’re my first choice because I know you’ve helped my family before.”

“Oh really?”

“Yes, my mother, Heidi? You helped her”

“You’re the Oak Place girl aren’t you?”

“Well not anymore, not for a long time I haven’t been a girl”

“Alright, how does protection from four sound?”

“That sounds perfect thank you-“

“That’s going to be five for twenty four hours for the next three days.”

“Done it’s- let me get it” I stood up and grabbed an envelope from behind the bar and handed it to him. He sifted through it then looked back at me with a raised eyebrow.

“Any reason why they’re all hundreds?”

“I did tell you I have the money for it I just- I can’t tell you how I got it.”