The Chase Family was a branch of the Hall of Three Vows.
The Hall of Three Vows had its own code: its members were forbidden from harming one another.
Before this, Reaper Yates had suspected that the Easton Family might also be affiliated with the Hall of Three Vows. Today, he and Sean Quinn seized the opportunity to intentionally get Julian Easton arrested, and sure enough, it forced the truth out into the open.
Three years ago, an act like this would have gotten him maimed, if not killed. No one dared to break the rules of the Hall of Three Vows. Now, he was only getting twenty lashes, a punishment that was light by comparison. Still, twenty lashes from the Hall of Three Vows, no matter how lightly applied, was still twenty lashes. A beating like that would take at least a layer of skin off him.
'It's fine. I'm a man who's already crawled out of a pile of corpses. Of course I'm not afraid of twenty lashes…'
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