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While I pondered whathi he could on Drew Donner It was the first solid na finally ca on with Brysen to bed

When we pulled up in front of the warehouse, the scene was like so out of a raffitied walls and crue for all of the excess and debauchery housed inside the disintegrating walls Now it looked even worse The walls that were still standing were charred black, the metal fixtures twisted and melted, all of the barred ere broken out, and the entire building was a burned-out shell of brick andfar worse permeated the air There were cop cars everywhere, and I tried not to cringe when I saw e

Bax and I both cli between the two of us as atched the eency crews rush around I didn’t see Nassir anywhere, but Bax let out a lohistle and inclined his head in the direction of where Titus’s nondescript sedan was parked The detective and ether and they both had looks of absolute fury etched on their faces Titus was talking rapidly and gesturing with his hands, Nassir was staring fixedly at what used to be his club His jaorking back and forth, and even with the distance between us, as Bax and Iin his caramel-colored eyes

“This is no joke We’re talking oes beyond a couple of bodies in a back alley They’ve pulled out six people so far None of theoing to get swept under the rug”

A tick worked its way into Nassir’s jaw and his gaze shifted to

“It shouldn’t get swept under the rug Find out who’s behind it, cop”

That didn’t sound good and there was no way Titus was going to locate the culprit and turn him over to Nassir for him to render his own form of justice Bax’s brother didn’t operate by the rules of the Point, he only cared about the law

“How did he even get in?” I asked the question to both of them but Titus was the one to answer

He turned to look at us and reached up to pull the knot of his tie loose He ran his hands through his hair and bit out, “Not in, on The point of origin appears to be the roof of the building It looks like there was an explosion on the roof and then a series of s, which is why there are so uy”—he hooked his thumb in Nassir’s direction—“actually had the place completely up to fire code The sprinkler system kept the body count to a minimum”

Six people dead wasn’t a minimum as far as I was concerned, and I could see by the way Nassir’s eyebrows dipped down over his blazing eyes that he didn’t think so either

“One of the dancers called uys at Spanky’s She said Chuck had his hands full, and that they were scared I got to the strip club and wasn’t even in the door when I got the call that the Pit was on fire Whoever is doing this didn’t wantI have worked for burn to the ground”

Titus sighed and I asked, “All the money?”

Nassir shook his head and pushed off the sedan “The money is fine I’ed to stay alive so long” He cut a hard look at Titus “I’et a name, I want it”

Titus didn’t say anything as Nassir wandered off with his phone pressed tightly to his ear I looked at Bax, who exchanged a look with his brother and shrugged

“Nothing else for us to do here”

Titus grunted “No Go hoht be in the back of one of those vans, or down at the station for questioning”

I couldn’t help but cringe as aze automatically shifted to the stark white coroner vans I didn’t want to think about the people ending their Saturday night with a trip to the ue, but it was kind of impossible not to This was the kind of price the Point required people to pay for venturing into its depths I got lost in hts, started to feel like no lehold I had on this place, the worst of the bad things and bad people were always going to win