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“I want to hug you, but I’m afraid to hurt you,” Cassie said as she approached Jazz slowly, as one ht blue paja past her shoulders “Sweetheart,” she said on an exhale, “God, I’h to visit me today”

“What?” Jazz said, the choked sound co out as ht of me?”

Shit, she’d pro for Cassie’s sake, but one sentence and she was seconds fro undone

“Oh, sweetie” Cassie gathered Jazz in a gentle hug, her thin ar

The tender e fro hot tears “I’ainst Cassie’s shoulder “He shouldn’t have done it Why did he do it, Cassie Why?” Her body quaked with the force of her hysteria,Cassie shake as well

“Shhh,” Cassie said, rocking her back and forth “Sit, honey, before you fall down”

The woman’s husband had just died in a horrificJazz “I’ so selfish,” she said as she lowered to the couch

“You’re being no such thing” Cassie also had tears rolling down her face, but she gave Jazz a tight ss and I want you to really listen and hear me Okay?”

Jazz sniffed and wiped her nose with the back of her hand as she nodded She looked straight into Cassie’s somber eyes

“He did it because that’s who he was, Jazoddammed hero” She let out a watery chuckle “He was mine And now he’s yours too And he’ll always be remembered as a hero He loved you He loved his club And he protected what he loved at all costs” Her voice hitched, but she seeether better than Jazz was

“He loved you most of all,” Jazz said as her heart ached

“Oh, sweetheart, I know” This time, Cassie’s smile held a bit of happiness “There isn’t a doubt in my mind how he felt about me I had le day went by where I wondered if his love for me had faded”

Of course Cassie was grieving, devastated, but seeing that she hadn’t been destroyed helped bolster Jazz Part of her had worried she’d walk in the house to find Cassie near co,” she whispered