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Marissa got out of the Mercedes then ducked back in "Will you please wait, Fritz? I want to go to the rental house after this"
"Of course, mistress"
She turned and looked at the back entrance of Havers&039;s clinic, wondering whether he would even let her in
"Marissa"
She turned around "Oh, God Butch" She ran over to the Escalade "I&039;lad you called me Are you okay? Are they?"
"Yeah They&039;re getting checked out"
"And you?"
"Fine Just fine I figured I&039;d wait outside, though, because you know"
Yes, Havers wouldn&039;t be too happy to see hi into her, either
Marissa glanced toward the clinic&039;s back entrance "The o home after this, can they?"
"No way The lessers know about the house, so it isn&039;t safe And frankly, there wasn&039;t much there anyway"
"What about the mother&039;s hellren?"
"He&039;s been taken care of"
God, she shouldn&039;t feel relieved that there had been a death, but she was At least until she thought of Butch in the field
"I love you," she blurted "That&039;s why I don&039;t want to have you fighting If I lost you for any reason, my life would be over"
His eyes widened, and she realized they hadn&039;t spoken of love for what see this She&039;d hated spending the daylight hours away from him, hated the distance between theo on anymore on her side
Butch stepped in close, his hands going to her face "Christ, Marissa you don&039;t knohat it means to hear you say that I need to know that Need to feel that"
He kissed her softly, whispering loving things against her mouth, and as she tres still left aardly between them, but none of that mattered at the moment She just needed to reconnect with him
When he pulled back a little, she said, "I&039;o inside, but will you wait? I&039;d like to show you htly down her cheek Though his eyes grew sad, he said, "Yeah, I&039;ll wait And I would love to see where you&039;re going to live"
"I won&039;t be long"
She kissed hiain and then headed off to the clinic entrance As she felt like an intruder, it was a surprise to be admitted inside without a fuss, but she knew that didn&039;t o smoothly While she rode down in the elevator, she fiddled with her hair She was nervous about seeing Havers Would there be a scene?
When she walked into the waiting area, the nursing staff knew exactly what she&039;d come for and she was taken down to a patient room She knocked on the door and stiffened
Havers looked up fro in the cast and his face froze As he see, he pushed up his glasses, then cleared his throat with a cough
"You ca called out to Marissa
"Hi, there," she said, lifting her hand
"If you&039;ll excuse et your discharge papers in order But as I said, there&039;s no hurry for you to leave"
Marissa stared at her brother as he cae her presence And he did in a lance flicked over the pants she had on and he winced
"Marissa"
"Havers"
"You look well"
Nice enough words But what he meant was she looked different And he didn&039;t approve "I am well"
"If you&039;ll excusefor a response, anger boiled up into her throat, but she didn&039;t let the nasty words on her tongue fly Instead, she went to the bedside and sat down While she took the little feure out what to say, but the young&039;s singsong voice got there first
"My father is dead," the child said factually "My mahmen is scared And we have nowhere to sleep if we leave here"
Marissa closed her eyes briefly, thanking the dear Scribe Virgin that at least she had an answer for one of those problems
She looked over at the oing to take you there soon"
The mother started to shake her head "We have nosaid, holding her tattered tiger She loosened the stitching on the back, dug her hand in and took out the wishing plate "This is gold, right? So it&039;s ht?"
Marissa breathed in deeply and told herself not to cry "No, that&039;s a gift to you from me And there is no rent to be paid I have an eain at the mother "I would love it if you tould stay there with me as soon as my new house is ready"
When John finally went back to the locker room after his meltdown, he was all alone Wrath had returned to the main house, Lash had been taken away to the clinic, and the other guys had gone ho quiet, he took the longest shower of his life, just stood under the hot spray, letting the water run down him His body felt achy Sick
Jesus Christ Had he really bitten the king? Beaten a classainst the tile In spite of all the spray washing over hi cleaned hirace and sha shit
Cursing, he looked down at the sparse muscles of his chest and the sunken pit of his stomach and the pointy knobs of his hips, looked past his utterly unimpressive sex to his little feet Then followed the tile to the drain where Lash&039;s blood had funneled out
He could have killed the guy, he realized He&039;d been that out of control
"John?"
He jerked his head up Zsadist was standing in the shower&039;s entryway, his face utterly impassive