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Brysen immediately started to shake her head at o?”

“Back to the garage for a week or so I just have to get the blood and stuff out of the condo”

Titus ave hiaveyour full-ti up the blood”

I definitely had to do it far more often than I wanted to admit to Not that I was in any kind of rush to tell hiht

“Why don’t you take Karsen to your brother’s and I’ll keep Brysen with htened out in a irls “Does that work for you?”

Brysen just stared at me for a minute and then looked at Karsen “Bax and Dovie’s place is closer to the high school, so I guess it’s fine for now unless you want to see if Dad’s still at the house” Her tone indicated that she didn’t havearound after the curtain had been pulled back on his selfish actions

Once again, Karsen proved that she was too wise and too aware for soo to Dovie’s for a while I think I’ve had enough of both Moht now”

Once that was settled, we all filed out of the hospital and went in opposite directions once we hit the parking lot I helped Brysen into the Stingray and fielded her rapid-fire questions about Booker’s condition and about how Dovie was doing She see than her own, but she was alert and totally on point and claih she had a nasty shiner and an enormous bruise on her temple, she felt fine She wasn’t shaky, didn’t seeloomy over the fact that she had been attacked or seen a ht at her feet In fact, she asked et her hair fixed and just see major had just happened to her

I didn’t buy it for a second Dovie had done the sa snatched and scarred by Novak It only took a few days for the nightmares to set in and then the moment of silence when it beca herto have to brace myself for when the storm hit with my pretty blonde

Only I took her to fix her hair, which turned out even edgier and more like a twenties flapper than it already was, took her to get so to eat, took her back to the loft so she could shower and take a nap, and she still seemed rock solid The next day she wanted o by the restaurant to explain why she wasso much work and o by the university to square up with her teachers That night she cuddled intoin her world to keep her up The day after that, she wanted me to take her to Dovie’s so she could say thank you and see her sister I dropped her off with a kiss, fully expecting her to be an eed up and had killed a man for her, but when I went back to pick her up after touching base with Nassir and Bax about business stuff, she was her typical cool and collected self and surprised the crap out of ot back to the loft

I would never turn Brysen dohen she wanted to have sex, but I was stunned, trying to treat her with care and delicacy considering her ordeal, but she was having none of it She pushed, pulled, kissed, sucked, scratched, and writhed againstcontrol and fucked her like I nor heavy with her curled naked and satisfied against my chest She had a sexy little half smile on her face and her eyes were heavy-lidded and sultry as she stroked a lazy hand up and down my chest I wanted to question her about it, ask her how she was doing and , but before I could for evenly and had dozed off onlike a damn baby while I pondered what her actions, or rather nonactions, meant

When she stirred an hour or so later, she rolled over ontodown at me with her hands braced on my chest Her blue eyes always reminded me of the prettiest summer day, and even with her bruised face she was still theherself, her resilience,in oons had kicked my ass and left me broken, I had holed away in this fortress for aer than I was