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“Soo get her Why don’t you call the blond Adonis and ask hi around that part of town on fight night anyway”

I bit my lip “That’s not exactly in the scope of our relationship”

“Brythe guy bought you a new computer and he stares at you like he wants to eat you up Ask hiive him a proper thank-you”

It sounded so appealing, so easy Handing so off to soh, and I didn’t knohat I would do if Race actually stepped up to the plate and took care of Adria for me I would probably fall in love with him Like I wasn’t already halfway there as it was

“It’s fine I’ll go pick her up and drop her at home She would do it for me”

He lifted a perfectly groomed eyebrow at me and I rolled my eyes

“Okay, she wouldn’t, but I kno bad that place can be, and I can’t, in good conscience, just leave her there”

Ramon bent down and pressed a kiss to my forehead as I slid behind the wheel of the car

“You be careful, Bry Lotta bad things seeht now”

They sure did Which sucked, because really, at the heart of who I was, there was a good person there Maybe at one point I had been spoiled, a little self-absorbed and unaware, but when it came time to put up or shut up, I had done what needed to be done Where was ood karma for all of that?

As I drove into the Point I noticed that there was this weird line, I could als went from kind of run-down to absolutely decis, the roads, the lights, the very ground the place sat on, and the few brave souls daring enough to stake claim to the wildness of the Point, had just become what this area was all about There was darkness that had nothing to do with nightti in the air that had nothing to do with pollution or s to do with it being the inner city It was all like the fabric, the threads that wove the Point together were s that could be found in one place And the deeper into the heart of the city I drove, the tighter and more obvious those knots and patterns became

I didn’t want to park the BMW and get out and expose myself to those creepy, crawly eyes I still felt all overher to meet me out front She didn’t answer my first call, or the second one, and she didn’t reply when I sent her a flurry of angry text es I really wanted to turn around and head back ho funny after drinking with a couple of guys was e of the moral-less heathens that populated places like this, and as a result I couldn’t talkher

I parked the BMW around the corner, sent a little prayer up that it would be there when I got back, and headed for the warehouse that housed the underground club There was a pretty good chance I wouldn’t even be able to get inside The door had a code and a security systeotten inside only because I ith Dovie

I shivered a little as soon as I shut the door to the car I could feel those prying eyes onin ti hard at the back of e of the old warehouse where I knew the dilapidated stairs that led to the inner sanctue of the alley, a heavy hand fell on my arm and I burst out a terrified scream My heart was in my throat and I jolted back so hard, I toppled over oneven when a round started to seep into the fabric of my pants

The guy looreasy brown hair that was hanging in his eyes, and he looked as afraid offrom foot to foot and held both of his hands up in front of hi to ward lared up at him

“What in the hell is wrong with you?”

He shifted around some more and his eyes darted to the side

“I’itiroaned and lu to stab hi

“What?”

“Race Don’t tell Race I scared you and that you fell I saw you couy, and he was following you I just wanted to warn you not to go into the alley by yourself”