There was a sharp contrast between the men and women sparring in the Fortis Group's training hall and the people Max had come to know in his Bloodline Gang.
The Bloodline Gang had been built from the ground up out of delinquents, people society had already discarded. They weren't children with bright futures or professionals trying to climb a corporate ladder. They were survivors. People who had already accepted they had no place in the ordinary world and chose to carve out their own path in the underworld. After everything that had happened with the Chalkline Boys and the Rejected Corps, the Bloodline Gang members had entered that life with open eyes. They knew exactly what they were stepping into, and they knew the risks.
The Fortis Group, however, was another story entirely.
