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They looked at Bax and then back atto have some fun”

Bax snorted “Fun has no place in this life You ht as well learn that now”

Blake bared her teeth and pushed past me to the front door “Your boyfriend is a dick, Dovie You could do better, even if he is hot”

I waited until the door sla frotoe-to-toe with Bax I had to tilt my head back to look him in the eye, and when I did, all I could see was a darkness deeper andhere, Bax?”

“Nice sweatshirt, Copper-Top” I hadn’t taken it off since the night I walked out of his apart to tell hih tie out of the system and be on their own You don’t have to re to be an uphill battle They should get to enjoy being teenagers”

“Why? We didn’t”

“And look how disgustingly well adjusted and happy we are” I couldn’t keep the sarcas to keep asking until he gave hborhood”

“Yeah, right I’ out of the ork You don’t need to be bothered keeping an eye out for me I hear you have better ways to spend your ti out in a tiny little apartht with Nassir Seeht where you were How’s Roxie? I’enda as well”

I didn’t want the hurt I was feeling to co it I felt like he had castto hi about, Dovie? I haven’t seen Roxie, and what I have going on with Nassir is keeping ret”

I narrowed my eyes at him, not sure I believed him “What kind of mistake?”

He threw his hands up in the air and tilted his head back so that he was practically yelling at the ht now?”

I was confused I didn’t understand what his choice to suffer at one of Nassir’s rigged fights had to do with me I wanted him to spell it out for me, to let me inside that complicated e person to follow He made it simple for me He let loose a flurry of nasty sords and then closed the sparse distance between the two of us

His hands slid into my hair at my temples and histhat in with I wrapped ers around those chains inked on his wrists and kissed hi, and he was everything about this life that I wanted to get away fro the sea hiainst the pressure and the bite of teeth onto eat me up and I had no desire to stop hiers curl around the back of my skull as he tried to pullopen and Reeve’s heavy footsteps thudded behind us I reluctantly pulled away and glanced at her over irls in our room and looked at the alarm in their roole hio of his tattooed wrists