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"Are you okay?" Jade asked quietly, getting so

"Yeah," I said just as quietly, "I get kinda carsick and this sucky weather"

"Yeah," she agreed and I cracked an eye open, taking in her beat up face I stroked a rough thuives a ripe shit how I’ed worse at my emotions and I clamped down on it I sed over my raw interior "It’s you I’ht

She s too great either"

Whose would be? It’d been a hell of a day

"Come here," I said and she scooted into the cradle of ht’ve dozed but was jolted awake as we rolled up to the hospital

There was an ongoing argu Clyde was heatedly letting Jonesy know that a cuff was an affectionate beating as opposed to a real one

Right, a cuff hurt like hell, I thought, silently agreeing with Jonesy

I wiped the sleep out ofover the back seat "He’s here with Tiff somewhere"

I was fuzzy fro off me and I held her as she woke up too

"It works out, bro," Jonesy said like he’d just executed the best et patched up and we can go kick Hamilton’s ass and save Tiff"

"Just like that?" Clyde asked with a

"Hell yeah just like that," Jonesy challenged and Clyde hissed at hiot the hell out of the car

Clyde was creepy as hell when he hissed

Bobbi giggled "You’re so cute when you hiss, Clyde"

He frowned and opened his ainst his lips "I know, lover It’s supposed to be frightening"

"I suppose a lesson on scare tactics are in order at a future time," he deadpanned

Then I looked at Bobbi She had blushed and did a whoa okay

Jade broke in aardly "Right, well, let’s get in there and let an Organic fixabout the undead foreplay

I held Jade’s hand as alked up to Valley General’s entrance

I didn’t like her going in without ile with her swollen face and small body My chin dipped and I cast my eyes down at our feet, so close to each other,breath

Didn’t work: I still felt like shit for beating uptone I’d never heard

I opened my eyes and met hers

"I know you love me I knoas Howie Remember? Reme e of her cli, just nodded

"I don’t blame you" She cupped her hand around one bad and I snapped ainst reen eyes captured o

I paused, pro her

"You can’t go in, man" Jonesy looked at us "They’ll throw your ass in jail, no matter what she says"

"Don’t take hih-pitched, white trash feh heeled slut shoes running after a wife-beating spouse while dodging the gutted car on cinderblocks

Pulsevision Screen In Head

I guffawed and Clyde scowled at h "I think it would be better that she say nothing, it will open Pandora’s box wide open," Clyde said, forcing the dumbass troop back in line

Jonesy opened his mouth and Bobbi interrupted, "Clyde means, that one confession will then lead to questions about bodies"

There were plenty of hidden corpses piling up, I noted

"Oh, yeah," Jonesy said, frowning Then he perked up "Listen, that signal is really close and there’s no telling what is going on with Tiff" Jonesy’s brows lifted

I knew Tiff was in danger, Gra, and I had to let irlfriend, as so o So she could be healed So Jade could be out of harm’s way, as Clyde would say

Because I needed to help a friend Two, if you counted John in the hospital Right noas hoping that Tiff was holding her own but I wasn’t sure

After all, Carson Hamilton had attacked her before and was now in possession of her again Ti out

Too bad I’d had the dual threat of Frazier and Jade Actually, it had been a terrible choice

My girlfriend or my friend

Life was always that, choices without a promise of outcome

Jade slipped away, my kiss still a spot of heat on her forehead and lips

I turned away frolass doors of the hospital and went after es of healing

Safe

Or so I believed