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“She always h and decided to break with her for good Two days later, she died from an overdose The police report says it was an accidental suicide—a cry for attention—but Gavin hasn’t been the sa for her” Slade shook his head “Maybe he feels responsible, but he didn’t shove a bunch of pills down her throat”
So to uilty about his own damn birth His mother had been sweet, but not too smart She’d had to work two jobs to try to support him after her lover had shoved a ten thousand dollar check her way and told her to get an abortion When he was a kid, he’d often thought she would have been better off if she had If she’d followed Stuart Ja late in a bar She wouldn’t have been in a car that broke down She wouldn’t have been hit by a passing drunk driver
Dex shook it off His mother had loved him and done her best to provide She wouldn’t want hi Maybe that’s why Dex could let go of the guilt and Gavin couldn’t If Nikki could see Gavin’s tor it up
“We have to talk to hi to ive Hannah the complete happiness she wanted and deserved
Slade smiled and put a brotherly hand on his shoulder “I can’t tell you how much that means to me, man Yeah, let’s find hiirl out and show her the mountains”
Hannah would look beautiful lying back on a field of green grass It had only been a few hours since he and Slade had cleaned her up and begun preparing her ass His dick got hard at thedeep inside her Her eyes had widened, and a breathy moan had oozed froht then and there If he and Slade hadn’t , he would have pulled her close and seen just how tight her pussy would be when her ass was filled
He glanced down at his watch Four preed to leave her alone for the
“You’re thinking what I’rinned When it ca
They rounded the corner that would take them to the bedroom they shared with Hannah when they saw him
Gavin stood in the doorway, his eyes haggard, staring at them Dex had never seen his brother look so disheveled and distraught So How much had he heard? Had their discussion about Nikki put him in this state?
“Gavin, what the fuck?” Slade grabbed the empty bottle of vodka in his brother’s hand
“What is wrong with you? Did you drink all of this today?”
“Yep I ca for another, but I didn’t want to interrupt your brotherly chat” Slade stopped, cursed at the haunted look in their big brother’s eyes “Tell us what happened”
Gavin’s lips quirked up, but he radiated pure self-loathing “Everything Soo But no matter how deep you bury it, that shit always comes back to haunt you”
“If talking about Nikki is upsetting you this much, I’ll back off,” Dex vowed Gavin needed to heal, but he wasn’t willing to hurt his brother to force the issue
Shaking his head, Gavin stepped carefully across the room His defeated mien contrasted sharply with the sunny kitchen table “It doesn’t ly story will be out in the papers by tomorrow”
Slade slid Dex a long, worried look as he sat down beside Gavin “The whole story about Nikki?”
Gavin nodded, eyes squeezed tightly shut, tor him
“Did you kill her?” Dex asked calo away?”
Gavin turned to him with a solemn frown “Would you really cover it up?”
“In a heartbeat,” Dex replied “I would be pissed that you hadn’t come to me in the first place If you have a body to hide, you call your brothers”
“I sometimes wonder if you consider me a brother at all I haven’t been close to you I accused you of behaving impulsively”
Dex ed a smile “In the past, I have behaved impulsively You had to bail e”
Slade grinned “At least you’re not fighting in bars anymore”
“I got a text from Hannah’s stalker” Gavin’s words turned the conversation on end and stopped Dex’s heart for a painful second
“What? When?” He couldn’t get the words out fast enough
“About eight this ”
Before they’d confronted Preston
Slade glanced his way, then back to Gavin “Fro you can do I just forwarded the whole text conversation to the Lenox brothers They’re working on it, but this guy isn’t stupid The nuist of his littleto tell the world unless we release Hannah”
“How does he even knoe have Hannah?” Slade asked “Unless it’s Preston, then he knows from Lyle because the pipsqueak saw you carry Hannah out of the office yesterday”
“True Slade fired Preston, Gavin The guy is a prick who treated Hannah like shit” Gavin shrugged “The firing of our CIO is the least ofto come out will tear us apart”
“We need to find out now if Preston e or if he’s still hovering around here,” Dex told Slade as he made a mental note to call the Lenox brothers ASAP to track down Preston’s current whereabouts
Gavin’s shoulders slumped “You really think Preston would stalk her? He’s been in her face a lot Why the sudden subterfuge?”
Who knehy a psycho did anything, Dex thought darkly
“Until we knoho the stalker is for sure, let’s focus on keeping Hannah close and protected,” Gavin suggested “The rest of it is over and done The fucking past is going to coements to deal with the fallout”