Editing Billy McBardigael (section)

==== Post retirement ====
Retirement suited Billy. The farm south of Bolingbroke gave him what the city never could: peace, space to breathe, and a silence that didn’t demand anything from him. But even in that peace, he kept a phone line open — '''two''', to be exact.

Jim and Edward.

They were more than old partners. They were the only ones Billy still called ''friends''. Through all the chaos, betrayals, and power plays, those two had never stabbed him in the back — and Billy wasn’t about to throw that kind of loyalty away. They talked often — about work, about memories, sometimes about nothing at all. Just keeping the bond alive.

Alexa, on the other hand?<blockquote>“Lying, cheating bitch,”

 he once muttered while pulling weeds from the garden.</blockquote>He had seen through her a long time ago, but the events of the Big Four’s downfall only confirmed it. Her ambition had always outweighed her honesty. And in Billy’s book, that was unforgivable.