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"Are you expecting any trouble?" she asked pointedly

"No, probably not I doubt it’ll even take too long, but--"

"Then it ," she interrupted "We can stop in on your brother, and then head to inally intended"

"Sky…" His tone was laced with reluctance

"If you’re worried about this being so relationship step, then don’t It’s just your brother--it’s not like I’hiliotten one now at the arena, but it wasn’t enough She wantedpause, he let out a weary curse "Fine, you can cohed "C’e’s brother lived in a converted town house that consisted of four apartround floor with an entrance located at the side of the brick house, and the lightbulb over the door shone bright when Gage and Skyler walked up

Gage reached for the screen door, glancing at the woman by his side "You can wait out here if you want"

He found hiree Denny had sounded alert and sober on the phone, but you never kneith hie had once seen his brother carry on an entire conversation with two police officers while tripping on half a dozen hits of acid

Crap, why had he let Skyler convince hi her?

Because you can’t say no to the damn woman

Nope, he certainly couldn’t All it had taken was the disappointed glimmer in her beautiful eyes and her soft "please" and he’d caved like a cheap tent

Except…it was more than that A part of him had wanted her to coe had to deal with, she’d…what? Understand hiive her ?

"I’ll co his troubled thoughts

His head jerked in a nod He was about to stick his key in the lock when the door swung open and his brother appeared

Gage instantly ran through the usual routine--examined Denny’s pupils, checked his bare ar scents of crack or heroin But Denny looked as sober as he’d sounded earlier, and the only odor hanging in the air was the faint whiff of pot se cleared his throat "This is Skyler"

"Nice to meet you" His brother stuck out his hand, which Skyler tentatively shook "Come in I don’t want to talk out here"