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"You’re in over your head" Paine says the words, but I don’t look at hih, taking a part of ot a little worried, but when she sent that last text, it felt like the bottorit er under control I only haveThe last year oflonely, and the last teeks were the best I’ve never known I’ers so easily One way or another, she’s going to listen toas I’m somewhere with her, I’ll take it" It’s the truth I’ll take et her I may be in over my head with her, but that’s fine with me I’ll drown in her, and it will be the sweetest death a man could ever ask for

I walk out of the bar and et into Butch’s car I know they’re just friends, but fuck does it burn to see hi when I walked into the bar, and it isn’t Butch she should have been calling out for No, it should’ve been me But I fucked up I want to be the man she runs to when she needs sootten all her trust, only to see it go up in s lot before heading to hts and the siren, chasing after them

Butch pulls to the side of the road and I follow suit, turning off the siren but leaving the lights on Butch goes to open his door, probably to argue with s on the streets of Chicago when I worked patrol

"Hands on the wheel and don’t soI won’t do to havea year-old case down the drain I’ll find another way

I go over to the passenger side, pulling the door open Reaching in, I pop her seatbelt and pull her out of the car and sling her over ht, but she’s just so tiny it’s easy to get her under control

Butch hops out of the car and I stop looking at him I can tell fro what he wants to do He may want to come at me, but I’m still the Sheriff

"You made her cry I’ve never seen her cry before, Law"

His words are like stones dropping into water The first i toto prevent, and now I’ to fix it," I tell hiet any points with Josephine if I knock her best friend out on the side of the highway because she’s not going with hi with you, Law Fix it or Paine and I will be so far up your ass…"

"Butch! What the fuck? You’re just going to let this lying cheating bastard take ain, and I slap her ass I’et her under control before she tries to buck off my shoulder and I land her ass on the hard blacktop

"Call ets back in his car and takes off, but Josephine still yells until she realizes he’s gone

I go to the passenger side of the cruiser and place her on her feet, caging her in She bucks againstat my chest while tears stream down her face Each verbal blow she lands is a direct hit to le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>