Chapter 66

Myles POV

The smoke was still curling from the barrel of my gun as the man staggered back with a hand pressed firmly to his shoulder and his eyes wild as he looked at me.

“You... you shot me!” He exclaimed in disbelief.

“You’ll live.” It was Knox who groaned in reply. “And that should serve as a message for all of you who would dare to question the boss! Who else has something to say?!”

The room fell silent, and a few of the prospects shifted back awkwardly with their eyes darting nervously around the room. Good, that was more like the reactions I was used to getting.

“Why don’t you have that shoulder looked at?” I said as I coldly returned the gun to its holster. “Get that looked at and stop bleeding all over the place.”

The frightened man immediately turned and left with his hand still pressed to the gun wound on his shoulder. That would teach him a lesson and the others as well. None of them would ever openly call me soft because I was m