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Although he had no clue what O’Donnell was blabbing about, Gage couldn’t help but voice a stern caveat "That includes Denny You leave him alone, too"

"The two of you could rot in hell for all I care Have a good life, Holt"

Click

He stared at the phone, his brain working overtime to make sense of the conversation, until finally it dawned on hie had glinoring another one of her stepfather’s texts

"Son of a bitch," he breathed

"What is it?" Reed appeared in front of him, wariness etched on his chiseled face

"Skyler" He drew in a breath "She…"

She’d gone to bat for hi to tell him where her stepfather worked, but he’d cut her off, and noas painfully apparent Clay Rivers was a federal agent

And Skyler had gotten hi truth achieved an impossible feat inside him--his heart was unbelievably full and desolately empty at the sae told his friends, hearing the note of awe in his voice "Somehow he convinced O’Donnell to back off Probably threatened hi"

Because of Skyler

Skyler

His brain refused to let go of that tidbit The sheer gravity of what she’d done for him wasn’t lost, either She’d reached out to a e

You can’t ever accept help, can you? Would it kill you to let so into his head with the force of a freight train Even after Gage had broken up with her, she’d put her own pain and issues aside to ask her stepfather for help

"I need to see her," he et her back"

A soft chuckle left Reed’s lips "No kidding"

Christ He was such an idiot Skyler was the best thing that had ever happened to him She’d been open with him from the start, unafraid to show hiht were bad She’d shared everything with hi

And noas ti, too