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Brysen had obviously gown tired of the two of us trying to out-badass each other and demanded, “Where is Race?”
“In my office with Dovie” I stopped Bax with a hand on the center of his chest as he went to , but I had always been bigger, and I had no qualht when I needed to “Look, I need this girl to stop what is happening in the Pointthe fires, the beatings, the destructionit’s all tied together She is absolutely necessary I told Dovie all of this and she gets it, so you need to use your brains and not go off half-cocked, because I will shut you down so fast it’ll ot me, Bax?”
Bax didn’t say anything, just shoved around lass door that had my rank and last name stenciled on it in black letters Brysen went to follow hiive her a heads-up that her h ti his best to try and hide it
“Race is a goodsome really difficult choices, but he’s always been a lot softer at his center than Bax His dad was a piece of shit, a oddamn oily son of a bitch, but when it hits hi through his old one”
She toldanywhere, as her man, my brother, and his lady all made their way towards us in a somber huddle I stepped to the side as both the couples embraced, muttered soft words to one another like they weren’t in the middle of a very active police station as they made their way to the front door and acted very s such as murder, betrayal, and deep personal loss was old hat It ht because in a place like the Point those things were indeed an everyday occurrence and all of those young adults were far too familiar with them At least they had all found someone to lean on, someone else to share the burden of all the constant bad news
Bonds created in the worst circuhter and last longer than feelings that weren’t put to the test Regular people got to love with ease and without thought People that fell in love in the Point had to do so knowing it was a battle to stay in love Everything here was a fight, and in a dangerous place full of dangerous people, love was often the only thing people illing to do the right thing for My brother was a prime example of that
Bax’s entire life had been one big house of cards waiting to coal deed after the other, just bidding his tiuy, and he never would be, but the fact that he cared about Dovie, that he loved her, forced him to make smarter choices He knew that if he went back to jail or if he eventually ran up against soher or a little more ruthless than he was, it would kill her to have to put hierous, but noith the sassy redhead in his life, he was also cautious I never thought I would see it happen, but the day had arrived when ht before he acted
I went back to my office and settled in I kicked back in ive out and dump me on my ass before the year was over and turned on the cell phone Reeve had left with htly sick to see as on it I had faced every variety of bad guy there was since I started as a patrol officer in the Point eight years ago There wasn’t much that shocked me, wasn’t much that made my skin crawl anymore Hell, I was the one that snapped the cuffs on Bax and threw his ass in the joint for five years when his luck had finally run out, and I did it without guilt or regret The idea of a fellow cop, a fellow officer of the law, being the one behind all the destruction and the bodies piling up in theso hot in h n up to serve and protect only to decide that oath was just too hard to keep
There was a security code on the phone that I couldn’t figure out, so I called one of the tech guys up and asked him if he could look at it I was known as kind of a hard-ass around the station, but I also got the job done, so generally when I called in a favor it got bumped to the front of the line It only took twenty uy to show up and another five for hio back to his own part of the station, I had already been through tenso hard I was lucky they didn’t crack
It was all there Words upon words that told a tale of revenge and destruction There were es back and forth between Roark and soirls arranging the setup so that the Irishet to Roxie, one of the Point’s most well-known hookers and a personal friend of Bax’s from back in the day
There were exchanges with so up the entry of explosives through customs The explosives that had to have been used to annihilate Nassir’s club The fire was intended to punish not only Nassir and Race but also the people that flocked to the heart of the Point in search of bad things The rage the dirty fed had toward the city was unreal and I couldn’t figure out as behind it It wasn’t like he lived here or had been a victim of the streets like the rest of us that called the Point hoeance it wreaked felt so displaced I knew there had to beme that much
There was another flurry of back-and-forth rab one of the kids that owed Race e to the new criminal elite More bodies had followed and so had ly things toto be safe, noto be anything but a forgotten place filled with forgotten people that no one would one
There was even a picture of Race’s classic Mustang as it burned to nothing but a twisted scrap heap of melted metal and rubber
The guy was vengeful and liked to witness the effects of his handiwork up close and personal Unfortunately he kne the good guys worked, so while there was plenty of evidence that he had been present for all these dirty deeds on his end, there was nothing on ours that showed him Roark kne to avoid cah to keep froround like a demented puppet master