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I slammed the car door and rounded the fender just as Bax ca out of his office I never questioned it when he was here late These cars, the oldto hi them all back to life piece by piece, which meant that since I lived upstairs in a converted loft, I had to listen to the sounds of revving engines and clattering tools well into the early hours of thesometimes We shared a fist bump, and Bax ran his hands over the shaved surface of his head

Physically, ere on opposite sides of the fence Bax had dark hair, dark eyes, a black star tattooed next to his eye, a hard, uns, bulky build that was used as a weaponand a crienerous inches over six feet, but I was a lot leaner, lankier, and had been born with all the characteristics that round I could hold s ever becaht spot, figured my brain was always my best weapon, not that this was reflected on the surface I had wavy blond hair, shot through with gold and honey, that was a little long and shaggy and, reen eyes I looked like a trust-fund kid on vacation I knew it, and even though I called the Point hoe it The way I looked made people underestimate me all the time, and since both Bax and I were still in our early twenties, trying to run a city built on the souls of those broken years before we had even been born, I needed every advantage I could get

Bax shoved the end of a cigarette in his mouth and lifted a black eyebrow up at me

“You get the cash from the frat dude?”

I nodded and rolled my head around on my shoulders

“He wasn’t happy about it” One of the first lessons I had learned was people didn’t gaambled because they were co else

“How not happy?”

I squinted at hi between us

“He pulled a gun and popped off a few rounds” In a house full of drunk college kids What an idiot, and what a total waste of a threat Getting hardware pulled on un was pointed at nore it

“Shit Glad I asked Dovie not to go”

I shook my head at hio because you’re freaked out that she’s going to rad that can promise her a better life and she’ll drop you on your ass”