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I didn’t reply

“She’s in the bathrooht be able to catch her, if you hurry”

She lefther words over and over in one to the police They would have protected her as ut, that Farrah was right No one would protect Cecilia ently or wholeheartedly than the Aces—not even my own team She was one of them, for better or worse, and they protected their own

As I turned on ht about the ti that I elcome, no matter what The way they’d paid for my , but before that, too Aet alri the time I’d ended up in the hospital at fourteen Ca withthat he’d never sell ain They’d even taken care of those hospital bills

“It’sthe door to the steam-filled bathroom I stepped inside and closed it behind lass shower door

“Everything okay?” she asked, her eyebrows rising as I stripped off my t-shirt

“Room in there for two?” I asked The question was rhetorical, and I didn’t wait for an answer as I toed off my boots and stripped off the rest of my clothes

She was still healing, and I needed to keep , but there was no way in hell that either of us was leaving that bathroo Cecilia naked and asn’t an opportunity I illing to let pass—not anymore

“Are you bigger?” she asked, pressing her lips together to keep fro as she stared atlike that”

“You know just the words tointo the shower “Or two inches tall—depending on the situation”

“I’ve always excelled orally,” she replied in mock seriousness

I couldn’t have stopped the laugh that ca out, I slidher skull in my palone, and Forrest had reet the way she’d looked when I’d found her that night—her face swollen and her shirt covered in blood I’d mostly been able to put it into the back ofmy shit every ti fragile Having her bare in front ofTechnicolor