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He felt detached fro distance at the sarab hold Trying to keep hi to let Mateo and Tristan do it for him, the way he alanted to do for them

No matter how hard he tried, no h

Teo used to alait for the other shoe to drop When things were going good, he expected the worst Waited for it, because good could never last Josiah always believed it could He told Mateo that a million times over the years, and he always believed it

Now, he didn’t kno to h at the beach house Fro tool to them, one chip with the PO, then another with Tristan’s boss A crack formed down the middle of the apart the circle they forure out how to get back into it again And ould happen to them all if he couldn’t find a way to be who they needed him to be?

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

Tristan

"Do you deny that you showed up at the scene of the fire, in the ht, with Mateo Sanchez?" Larry asked Tristan

He knew it Jesus, he fucking knew it

"What would be the point in that? We both knoouldn’t be true" They’d driven together Walked to Josiah together Tristan had held Josiah, then Mateo had

"And the other oneJosiah What is he to you?" Larry had a smirk on his face

It wasn’t his business Larry couldn’t ask him that Both Tristan and Larry knew it Still "He is mine," Tristan said simply The smile fell from Larry’s lips Confusion creased his brow "Mateo isit? There was a possibility they would both have to be there for Josiah in the future If they did, it wouldn’t be so they could hide

He didn’t want to hide it anyed at his muscles, made his bones feel too heavy to carry around He was so tired of hiding So tired of feeling like no matter what they did, they would still lose

Larry watched him for a moment, apparently at a loss for words "You have to understand where we’re co from Hetheyone of the, and the arson at the coffeehouse Whether he did it or not, he’s been questioned We can’t have one of our head attorneys tangled up in aout for now, but who kno long that will last? It’s a paid leave--"