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"Soonna fix shit," I said

"I know, but et for a while" Bear plopped back down on the couch He scratched at his aret this shit over with

"Mind if I ask you so his smokes from the table He didn’t wait for uts all torn in pieces, when you used to go through a bitch or two a day? So tionna sit around and talk about our fucking feelings now?"

"I irls hot, sexy, trashy, but in an I’d-still-fuck-your-trailer-park-ass type of way She’s different A girl like her should be far far away from anyone who even reseun and set it on the table "You about to say soonna need this for?" I asked

But it hat he wasn’t saying, which ritten all over his blonde bearded face, which was really pissing me off

He wanted to protect Pup

Because he loved her

I wanted to e chest, but I didn’t Because I understood ’Cause Pup was everything in one beautiful fucking package, and it wasn’t her fault that more than just me saw that, and it wasn’t Bear’s fault that he’d felt it too But it would be his fault if he ever acted on it

If he ever touched her, I could be standing over his dead body, holding the suilty, because it would be that motherfucker’s own fault if I had to put hiun," Bear scoffed, "you already know I liked her froarette into an e her up the stairs to you that night Not keeping her forsadness in his voice "And then when you fucked it all up by al pissed then when you showed back up at the dock" Bear took another drag of his cigarette "Way I see it, you owe ht being the reason I ever set eyes on Pup, was the only reason why my fist hadn’t yet connected with his nose

We needed a change in conversation before I did soret Me, because he wasbullets

"You still haven’t answered the question, ed "I don’t know," I answered honestly "It’s just another fact Just like the sky is blue The grass is green" I shrugged "She’s mine Just is Just know it"

"You ever think she deserves better than this shit?" Bear waved his hand around the roo look If I was on edge before this conversation, I was teetering off of it now "Not me, motherfucker Just…better Than this Than this life"

"’Course" I lit a cigarette and inhaled, tossing the lighter onto the table And then I looked up and Bear and smiled