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“Tellthis,yourself in danger for him Why?”

I tilted my head and pried my eyes open to look at her Her head was bent and she was staring intently at the stack of my hands on my abdomen and the Road Runner tattoo perched there If she looked any lower, she would be blushing, because right or wrong, ere both h clothes in the dark to ot us into trouble, Race got us out” She snorted and I had to grin “When Nassir said Race didn’t like the way he did business, he wasn’t lying, but that was because his business nor my ass kicked, and Race hated it When I first started boosting cars, Nassir was theI did and it bugged Race to no end that I was the one on the line, the one breaking the law, and Nassir could just sit back with clean hands and leterection sorin

“Race was the one who told ht to Novak He was a big-picture guy and competitive as hell It didn’t matter how much I wanted to party, Race partied harder It didn’t h, Race wantedto prove who he was despite his background, instead of because of it It was like that with breaking the law I did what I did because I was good at it, loved the cars and the thrill Race wanted it to be a business, wanted to be smart about it At first it esome, and then we started to realize just how deep in ere I never wanted to be owned by anybody, and Race was still tied to the Hill and the Harter and bigger scores, and he had enough He was supposed to be working on a way to get us out when I got busted”

She cleared her throat and I watched as she had to drag her eyes up froht if you were so good?”

That was dangerous territory and I wasn’t sure she was ready to hear it

“I was set up”

She blew out a breath that sent her red curls dancing

“By who?”

I lifted my hands up off my stomach and pushed them out in front of me until my knuckles popped loud in the quiet house

“By Race”

Dead silenceelse, I reached down between led noise

“No way He loved you like a brother He never would’ve done that to you He never would’ve told ht you were going to use ot to my feet and went to where I had tossed arette fro a stripper, when I know for a fact he used to do that very thing on a regular basis We never really know anyone all the way through and through, and it is ultimately every man for himself on the street”