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I didn’t know if she was here to stay but I had no trouble ad holy stuff that surrounded ae motivation to make sure I kept the parts of me that were still just Race intact With her I didn’t have to be Race the bookie, Race the loan shark, Race the enforcer, I just got to be a regular guy concerned about irl happy

“Shouldn’t the goal be to keep the blood away from the people you care about?”

I didn’t think he heard ine co at his brother

“That’s a V-10 Who dropped that in there and did the work to make this junker able to handle all the torque it puts out?”

A shadow crossed over Titus’s face “Gus”

Bax’s dark eyes went even darker

Gus was the arage and given e on Novak He had also run Novak’s chop shop for hister had found out about the crafty ht in front of me While Benny and the rest of his boys had beaten ain into the concrete until I couldn’t see through the blood ined to un at Gus and blowing a hole right through the middle of him

Bax made a noise low in his throat and ran a hand over his face He closed the hood to the sedan and dug out a smoke He pointed it at me

“That’s exactly why it’s better to get the ones you care about used to the blood, Race Even if they know about it, about how this place works, bad things will happen no atekeeper happens to be”

This conversation was depressing and I was already bu Bax he better not even think about helping Brysen get rid of her car as the brothers started talking about engines and horsepower like death and blood weren’t ically that dealing with things like the loss of so them well before their ti in this place, but not even taking a e how et my head around

Maybe it was because I had actually watched Gus die,around that the only reason Novak had set his sights on theabout hie was now Bax’s ht up a bunch of bitterwith