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"I had thepicked up by the cops last sue It was al and the local police in a podunk North Carolina town are the ones who ed to hem me up"

"You were arrested? And they let you back out?" Eli alhed it was so ridiculous

"I served eleven ot out They never even suspected they had the head of one of the s in their midst" He chuckled at his own joke "So due to those unforeseen circuot out and headed back up here, I had to start all over You’re not the easiest guy to catch up with Your schedule follows no discernible pattern, and you’ve got all those eyes on you"

"Obviously not enough"

He waved his gun crazily in Eli’s direction "Enough that I couldn’t get close I knew I’d taught you soet you away fro after your clients You’d fly out and they wouldn’t always follow you But you never stayed long enough Except for with her"

"That’s why you focused on Kaylee" Elliott’s chest tightened All this tier How many ti for hiht he’d voht then and there All he’d ever wanted was to protect her, but his adoration of her had alotten her killed

"She was the only one you consistently showed up for Any hint of a threat on this girl and there you were, and you’d stay for days" Justice’s eyes glea, too Innocent You always did have a thing for saving the defenseless"

Eli growled, his doht of Justice anywhere near her

"All I had to do atch and wait Those two things can give you an opportunity, even against soot frustrated I realized then that if I killed you, I’d never knohy you sold us out or how ht of all those years on the run…"

His ar from the wall beside his head

"I already told you it wasn’t ree"

Eli fired back and used the opportunity to double back and hide in the dining room There were tays into the roo from either side