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"I didn’t marry you for protection Iyou, then I’oing to work if you try and keep et that you want to take care of me, I really do But don’t you think it worries o off the deep end like this?"

"I’m sorry," I repeated, but I really did ies in the world for the way I’d been acting

"Don’t be sorry, O’Connell Do so about it You promised me once that you’d be a better man Well then be one You can’t solve every proble to end up in prison one day, and I really do not want to be visiting there"

"And if Frank gets to you again?" I asked her

"Then I’ll fight hiain and stay alive until you rescue me I’ve lived ain You can’t worry about everything Just take things a day at a tiry, hit punch bags, not people," she ordered reed I was so relieved that she hadn’t just up and leftEarnshaw out that I’ In all honesty, it felt like a weight had been lifted offwith her

I’ize to either," she rereed, as I restedforward to it"

The next day, I sat at the bar of the Royal Oak sipping ered when I’d ordered it until I gave hi to be a better man but that didn’t mean I still couldn’t fuck with people fro a non-alcoholic drink deserved to be fucked with anyway Earnshaw sat down on the stool next tolike soer please," he mumbled to the barman

He nodded and we sat in silence as the barman poured him his drink He reached for his wallet until I helda fiver across the bar "Do you regret co my sister She needed retting taking a job with Danny," Earnshaw toldat me

"Danny’s the best I know he comes over as a bit of a hard arse but what he doesn’t know about boxing ain’t worth knowing," I told hi with You’re a lot ht you’d be" Fair play to the man, he had a pair of balls on him I’d knocked hi me a dick to my face Oddly, it enetically predisposed to be a dick You’ll learn to get used to it," I told hiy

"I’ around to find out," he admitted "I’ll be honest, when I came here I had a real dreauire call wasn’t that far off thespecial When I , I figured this wasmy help didn’t factor into ht about what I was going to say Letting hiht to it Hell, after the stunt I pulled, he could have gone to the police and probably had ed with assault At this point, I don’t even think he’d told Danny what had gone down

"Do you knohat happened to Em?" I asked him