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"So you know Carter?" A the exchange, but looked back down at her lap

"I’m fine," I said My voice was firmer this ti back anyway, but I’m fine What happened?"

"Wait a minute That was your club?" Noah stepped forward He looer, but Cole’s complete stillness somehow outmatched Noah instead

"It’s my family’s club, but mine now" Cole narrowed his eyes "Did you not know the name?"

"The name…" Noah trailed off "Fuck me"

Amanda looked at Theresa "I didn’t pay attention What was the name?"

Theresa’s shoulders dropped as she realized it, too "Mauricio That’s the naether"

"Carter said he knened it, but I never considered" Noah shook his head "We wouldn’t have gone there if we’d known"

I tuned theet, or was the club the target?" I asked Cole

"The bomb went off in the back of the club If you’d been closer to the door, you would’ve been killed" He glanced at Thouards on the other side of the door, at least two "Thohtly I got one We’d lost two of ourme Those men had died because ofat Michael, I repeated, "I’?" Theresa’s head swiveled around "What happened?"

"Theresa," Noah murmured "They lost sood"

A a tear from her eye with the other one "I’m sorry, Emma," she whispered

They were Carter’s men, and they were all like brothers I didn’t know the ins and outs of their operation, but I knew Carter would be wounded when he found out He trusted his life and mine to the away Suddenly it hurt to breathe again

I didn’t want to be there It was too much I patted A my vision People had died because of me It hurt to be there

"Eo to bed"

She nodded, looking at Thomas, who came over to help me down the hall

Once I was underneath the bedcovers, A, "I’ll help her This is e do"

He nodded and headed back outside, but before the door closed, Theresa came in with a cup in her hand She placed it onto the bed stand and asked Amanda, "What can I do?"