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"I’ your worunt "It’s coo back with you, help as oes down, I want to be at your side"

Gene had been a uard I knew he hadn’t approved when Emma first came back into my life I hadn’t cared then, and I didn’t noould do as I pleased She was most important, and Gene knew this was how I felt That’s why he’d been around so much before we concluded the deal with the Bartel falad to have hi, I shook e, cold, mean, and distant Emma was home, but still, I looked over at him He cared That’s why he was here, and why I allowed hio down, you want to be around the person ill probably keep you alive?" I murmured

"Don’t be a fucker" He faced forward, his jaw clenching

I chuckled, turning inup

Then he added, "Maybe"

"Don’t worry I’ll keep you safe"

"Shut it"

I wanted to laugh, but I didn’t Gene ith me because he was concerned for oing to coood example I’d brokered the truce, and I could end it If they killedprepped to take over, and they’d just been waiting If the as going to happen, it would be soon Either that, or ait for what Cole decided the family would do, whether he would launch his own attack

"They killed his two friends, but he killed four of theirs" Gene looked back to hts I nodded "One of them was Stephen Bartel"

"The last battle was because of Dunvan, but this is closer to the core of each family"

"A Bartel and a Mauricio," I said Ours had walked away "We have to wait and see now"

"I don’t like it I don’t like any of it"

Neither did I "We follow Cole now"

He grunted again and shot back, "I follow Cole now You’re out, remember?"

I nodded "You knohat I mean"