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“Thanks Coet lucky and he’ll back down”

“Yeah, and ical kiss from a fairy princess, wake up, and discover this was all a dream”

“I’ back a smile

“This is not a surprise Take care, brother Reot me?”

“Let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that”

• • •

The next four hours were the longest in my life

I saw the way Marsh watched when I caer plan I didn’t know about? As for Talia, she was alh she didn’t like that we’d be traveling separately

“I don’t understand why I can’t ride with you,” she whined I shrugged

“Ask your brother I’m just followin’ orders”

“You guys bring in the traitor, he’ll give you a patch,” she said, changing subjects abruptly “Especially if your cousin coet hold of him?”

Her casual question startled me, and I stopped so suddenly that she bumped intoin my stomach

“Marsh told you about that?”

Talia sthe fact that you called ht it was funny I think it’s funny, too Thing is, I like fucking you and you’re pretty to look at, but don’t let it go to your head If onna end well for you”

Then she popped up on her toes, offering , slow kiss

“Ride safe”

I watched her swagger off toward a Dodge Ra cluster, a now-cal them Couldn’t see any bruises from here, butHard to believe she was the sa earlier that irl Of course, you’d have to be to stay friends with Talia

Minutes later, engines roared to life as Marsh and the others pulled out in forarounds to suck their fu with my club, not the least of which was a decent position in the pack

Exhaust wasn’t the only thing we had to suck down along the way Half an hour into the trip, a thick cloud of shway, tiny specks of white ash raining down on us Wildfire in the distance Then we passed a series of blackened patches of ground along the pavement

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