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“Your brother has always been the suy I have ever known He not only blacke fund, he made him set up a trust with you as the beneficiary on it There’s over a —happens to you, the ets donated to that halfway house you work at”

Dovie blinked at ood is that? Lord Harte the terms anytime he wants”

I shook my head “No Race made sure it was rock solid The only person that can add or subtract anything to the trust is Lady Hartman, and for her to do that someone would have to tell her not only about the olddick, but about you too Race has it locked down He firmly has your piece-of-shit father by the balls”

As for where that left us and the rest of theto suck us under, I told her as honestly as I could “Everything else depends on what Race has The only reason they haven’t snatched you and dragged you in to draw him out is because I’et to him As for Hartman, if youraround you, I can’t i with you Plus Novak is the only guy he could ask and look how that turned out for hiht now you are farto Race and whatever Race has That’s the threat we have to worry about”

“Are you using et to hihed and felt the vein inmy wrists and then back up at her I didn’t know the answer to that anymore

“I don’t know”

“Why not?”

“I need to find Race I like you, like getting you naked evenin my life up to this point, but at the end of the day, whoever is responsible for taking five years fro down I know that won’t jive with you if it ends up being Race, and after I’ left, so I don’t knohat this is, Copper-Top”

She got up off the bed and walked over to where I was sprawled in the chair I just watched her until she was standing in front ofloosely at her sides and her eyes ild and full of fear and so else I couldn’t naood that came frorew out of the impenetrable face of a cliff wall How she maintained that softness, that care, was ato kill for her in order to protect it after I was long gone

She sighed so hard I felt the depth of it from the space that separated us She bent over so her hands were on each of aze wander down the now gaping neck of her shirt, but when I jerked it back up to hers, it was alreen

“Titus didn’t just happen to be there that night, Bax Put the pieces together Race was stuck between his loyalty to you and Novak holding me over his head Call your brother”