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“What’s up?”

He shifted nervously on his feet “Just wanted to uy in the suit was”

“I know, Marco It’s fine He’s gonna try and find Race”

“I know He was on the phone when he got back to the car Man, is that a sweet ride” Envy colored his tone

“What was he saying on the phone?” I bita kid for information, but if Bax didn’t want to let me help him, maybe I just needed to take the choice away fro about someplace called Spanky’s over in the District”

The District here all the working girls lived and worked It here all the strip clubs and bars where girls were looking to make ends meet on their backs were at It was still in the Point, just one ht you

“What was he saying about Spanky’s?”

Marco looked at ly My anxiety rimace, and he didn’t buy it for a second, but he answered irl na to that he would be by to to do withlaid He did say that was on the top of his priority list at the moh ers I reached out and rabbed Paulie’s elbow to drag hiuy isn’t soe could sense the danger radiating off of Shane Baxter, then reatest idea to try and insert etting run over Unfortunately, I just didn’t knohat other choice I had at this point

“YOU’RE IN A HURRY to get out of here tonight”

I looked up at the sound of the voice as Brysen Carter sat down next to me We were both waitresses at the saht in the part of tohere the Point turned into the Hill I was froot along pretty well, and if I was the type to have friends, I would’ve considered her one She was nice toto pick up a shift for me if school or my other job called, and she didn’t take crap from anyone And it wasn’t because she clearly came from money, but because she was petite and pretty and the restaurant was close enough to the Point that it

“I a my count-out well before my shift was over and had handed offupRace hat o without hot water for a month if that’s what it took to find hi friendly, but I didn’t have the tiet into it I had no idea when Bax would show up at the club, which et there before he saw and intercepteda few hours a week at a transition horown up like I had While there were a lot of really good foster ho to help out in the world, there were also a lot of really bad ones I wanted to help Wanted to give kids the option to have a norht because I eventually wanted a degree in counseling I wanted kids inchance

“Well, I know you don’t have a date because hell hasn’t frozen over, so where are you off to?”