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The sound of footsteps nearing us interrupted our kiss We turned and saw Da into his pocket and pulled out a key chain He pulled out one key and handed it tome it was his apartment key He instructed Damien to drop me directly at the apartment door and make sure I was safely inside Then he went back into the bar and I was following Damien to a black SUV

Fivened up for! I didn’t coe ass predicas inked with scorpion tattoos who called dibs to fuckdown onup a storm when Brett’s face shone itself in my memories The stench of his alcohol in my nose, the wild craze in his eyes, the dark intentions that radiated off of him when he cornered me in that roo Jaxon thereafter What in God’s na raped by another ical fucked-upness was that? To boot, I deceived a good ry atto control e for the better only to relapse the second od forsaken cesspool of a town All recent certainties were no longer certain When Jaxon had ht, he never er loo presently around him, I never once anticipated this kind of it

Yet despite all of this, the unsettling feeling I had beneath the surface ofentirely different As if I wasa certain piece to this crazy puzzle I couldn’t put hts, and the second it was achieving tangibility, it scurried back off into my veiled subconscious

"You sure you want me to take you to Jaxon’s?" I nearly jumped at Damien’s deep voice I looked over at him, seated comfortably behind the wheel of the car It then occurred tobeside a o in this wonderfully safe town?" I sarcastically asked

"Ho to?"

"Winthrop, Sara Just say the word and we’ll grab your shit and go back to your safe world"

I looked at him perplexedly "You’re supposed to follow Jaxon’s commands"

"There are exceptions"

I was silent for a while

The car finally slowed to a stop in front of a tall, luxury apart with his eyes forward forfor o to Jaxon’s apartment and wait for him to join me But ain, pelting the car softly

I let out a slow breath, gripping the seat with a hand on either side

"Thatout into the quiet dark street "Did you kill hiht it was h I’aze "Because Jaxon told you to" I was mindful to make that into a statement I didn’t need clarification It was apparent Still, I had to say it, almost like I needed to hear myself clarify my worst fear

"The man was spineless He didn’t deserve to live, so I’ to tell you the others were just as dirty"

"O-Others?"