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"How do you deal with that stuff?"

"Trust only the people who are living it with you and the people who knew you before you became famous"

"She knows she can trust ain His arm brushed Trey’s as he settled on the stool, and he stifled a groan of torment Theto be

"Don’t betray that trust She’s going to need you" Trey caught his eye and held his gaze "Almost as much as she needs an didn’t need anyone but him He would protect her until the end Keep everyone at minimum safe distance No one would touch her or even look at her He knew that wasn’t realistic, and though he only aze for several seconds before he had to look into his coffee again, Trey was right Reagan would need Trey, or sos Ethan couldn’t understand weighed her down

"She’s important to me Her happiness is i those feelings to a man he hardly knew A man who happened to be his competition for the wo any from the sidelines like some loser

"I know," Trey said He clapped him on the back "It’s important to me too"

Trey’s hand slid down Ethan’s back It took every shred of Ethan’s willpower to stay on his stool and not tackle Trey to the floor and rip his clothes off

"So have you always been in security?" Trey asked His gaze drifted down Ethan’s body and he shifted on his stool uncoht build for it"

"I used to be a police officer"

"Used to be?"

Ethan nodded "I got fired for beating the shit out of a suspected child molester Police brutality"

"I don’t blaotten off easier if I hadn’t already been on probation for beating the shit out of a guy who assaulted his wife"

"You probably just got carried away"

"Like I did when I beat the shit out of a guy for raping a sixteen-year-old girl?"

Trey winced "I guess"

The thing was Ethan didn’t regret getting violent with those criminals Not at all

Trey touched his knee "Do you ed "Soood at it I enjoyed protecting the innocent and hurting those who hurt them, but that’s not what the job is really about"