As Logan spoke, Joe nodded, because he'd felt the same way, both about his own situation and about Logan's. For a long time, he'd never figured someone could work for him better than Billy had, but now there was Dale. And for an even longer time, he'd been convinced that Jack wasn't right for Logan.

"That's pretty much all that matters," he said. "Like you said, there's no fucking point fighting it. You just get somewhere and it's too tiring to fight something like that."