Chapter 57 Family Bleeds Deepest

• Mason forced his hands steady, though every nerve screamed to run. Eve's casual mention of Thomas's catchphrase had just opened a crater under his feet. The mirror showed him Leo King's face - the face he'd stolen along with everything else. Dead men's shoes always pinched, but these ones might just strangle him. Another thought pushed through the panic:
• Funny thing about Mason Rivers - he never ran from a fight. Not even when he should've. No family left to mourn him anyway. No wife crying at his grave, no kid growing up fatherless, no business partners to settle accounts with. Death might be knocking, but hell, maybe dying clean beat living dirty.
• "Family bleeds deepest," he repeated, testing the words like a man testing thin ice. "Pop had his way with words, didn't he?"