O'Grady

When Liam O’Grady released Paige Hardy from their torrid kiss, she was breathless. Liam smiled. He liked to think that he was in control all the time.

*

Liam O’Grady had come up the hard way. He had climbed to the top of his ladder when it came to being a street fighter, then turned to underground fighting, which was lucrative but he had no intention of making it a full-time career. No, he did not want to end up with Parkinsons or some such illness, he thought dismissively.

Liam O’Grady had a plan. He needed to climb up in life, and make money. That was something he had desired all through his childhood, when he was growing up, seeing his father evolve into a small-time mob leader.

But Liam wanted more.

And he had found a way to get it too.

*

His charm, and his sexual magnetism meant that women fell for him.

And he had chosen Paige Hardy, along with her rich and powerful father, Brett Hardy, to be part of his ascent.

Brett Hardy was a political player and close to the Governo