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“We are doing h your pretty head right now And you know I didn’t uy that owes ht have some pull with a rehab center in town It won’t be in the best part of town, but I think I can work so out”
I let my head fall so that my forehead touchedto help s are allyou into it” I laughed a little and rolled my head to the side to look at him “More minions?”
He grunted and rab his keys
“No A fairly decent guy who likes to gamble on baseball, only his tea to get on top of it, and so far, all he’s done is dig the hole deeper, but if I let hi with youranything, but it’s worth a shot” He caainst hi hiive you a call in a bit to let you knohat I find out”
I just watched hione fro so frozen and stuck in a life that felt like a shadohat it should be, to being right in the center of a life full of danger and risk with a guy like Race at the heart of it It felt so good that he wanted to step in and try and tidy up everything that had spilled over in the last year or so, but it also made me wary
Race was obviously a problem solver, he always had a ready answer, but when I’d asked hiue I liked Race, probably was right on the cusp of being in love with him, but I didn’t knohat that looked like if I had to process what happened if he ended up hurting my dad It was that contradiction that I always see wonderful like try and get my mom the help she so desperately needed, then turn around and have to take out street vengeance onfeelings for the s in the same breath
Deciding I wasn’t going to have a concrete answer to that dileht at the moment—or maybe ever—I hauled et presentable for the day I climbed back intoschool for the rest of the day and that I would just go to work later on I searched high and low in Race’sto eat, only to come up empty I didn’t kno he could live like this There was so unnecessary things, but he kept that ato the extrerasp on hoorked to know there was a reason behind it
My growling sto around the loft without some kind of sustenance, so I e Bax iht sight ofan eye on me around these parts He tilted his chin atto retreat back inside when I called his name He turned around and propped a heavily muscled shoulder on the doorframe
I walked up to hi all the old fear and questions I had about hiave hio stiff and pull back
“What in the hell was that for?”
Both of his black eyebroere raised to his hairline and the star tattooed by his eye itching Bax was not a guy you just randoratitude, apparently
“I just wanted to tell you thanks for getting that creep in my class to back off I really appreciate it Also, if you know anyone ould be interested in buying my car, could you maybe feel theh on the sale to get a small apartment somewhere for me and my sister”
“Say thank you ords, not hugs All I did was lurk around Race was pissed and the guy knew it Soave me a pointed look—“means someone wants to not only hurt you but make your life crumble from the inside out”
I bit down on my lower lip “Race says it’s someone with a hard-on for me”
He nodded, dark eyes serious and steady “Sounds like it”