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“Well, let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that for anyone I’d like to have faith that Titus is a good cop and that he can figure so out That seems like the best option for everyone”

Gus snorted and let his feet thump to the concrete floor

“Sure, until your old man decides you’re too oes slu to take you out It’s an endless cycle of people trying to clean up messes they should’ve never made in the first place”

I didn’t kno to reply to that, so I just tucked my hair behind my ear and turned to reach for the door handle “I hope the cycle ends It’s exhausting”

“You’re telling erous people out there”

I knew itonly the erous one that was out there I wanted to find ood-bye over my shoulder

The bus ride was torturous and took forever I had gotten spoiled being ferried around town into have to get used to going back to the way things were, where I only had myself to rely on I was happy to have Race back in my life and I appreciated the sacrifice he had et past how readily he had offered up Bax as the sacrificial lamb It was like everyone in his life kneas bound to ultimately self-destruct, so whatever he had to endure before then was just his penance to pay I didn’t like it one bit For all his faults, and Lord knew there were too many to count, he was also a loyal friend, a devoted son, and a man capable of compassion and kindness, even if it didn’t come naturally to hian everyone seemed to want to automatically cast him in I knew there was ot to the house, I finally breathed a sigh of relief The kids were happy to see me, and so was Reeve I don’t know if it was because I showed up on my oer and not with Bax that had her derateful Dinner went off without a hitch and only the teen girls asked where the hottie with the badass car was this week I blew theht after dessert They were such good kids and they deserved to have a life where they didn’t have to worry about where their nextto put them out on the streets

Blake and Lindsey both coa as they went right to bed and didn’t mess around on the computer or with their phones They disappeared and I letin ed since the invasion of Shane Baxter

Reeve and I put the little kids to bed and alternated showers, and before I knew it, the night was als chasing each other around in my head, I told Reeve I would take the first round of bed checks She readily agreed since she had spent the day at her other job as a hairdresser and looked worn out I was going to use the ancient desktop computer that was set up in the family rooed with a textin with lanced down at the screen and went still when I saw the na from the hen house, Copper-Top

I blinked dumbly at the screen and didn’t bother to write him back I hit the call button and went out onto the front porch

“What are you talking about?”