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“Fuck”

“Yeah Get down here, King, and see what this sick bastard did to this poor girl, and while you’re at it find the one that’s still breathing and tell her to watch her back”

I hung up the phone and squeezed it so hard in my hand I was surprised it didn’t break in half I looked at Reeve, atching me solemnly

“Grab whatever you brought with you We’re leaving” I didn’t ask her

She blinked at ether “I already told you I left in a hurry, and that I don’t have anyplace to go”

“I have a place that will do for now A body just showed up on the docks and apparently she bears an uncanny resemblance to you Thatus know he’s pissed about it Soot murdered just because she had the same hair and eye color as you, Reeve Doesn’t that tell you how dangerous this is for you? This guy is a sociopath” And I had zero tiered hie and how to stop him

She climbed to her feet and I saw the way her eyes shifted when I ret and reood to know and itto push her back up against the wall and continue where we had just left off

“Where exactly do you want o, Detective?”

“When Bax got locked up he was staying at this crappy little studio just outside of the District I didn’t know he bought a house before he got arrested When he got out of jail and hooked up with Dovie, he left the place in the city and took her out to the burbs Well, I paid the rent on the studio in advance for a few years so that he would have soot out It’s been empty for a while and it’s only about half a step up fro more secure” I cut her a hard look “Besides, everyone kno Bax feels about you, so no one would ever think you would be anywhere near his place”

She couldn’t afford to forget that there were enemies around every corner and all of the

“Titus” Her voice was quiet and her eyes bored into azes locked “I came back to help you out I don’t want to be the reason you and Shane end up back at odds I kno hard it was for you to almost lose him That’s not what any of this is about for me”

Her eyes drifted up to the white spot in my hair that was a constant res Unlike e he kept his wild side locked away in He did what he wanted, when he wanted, and that erous That’s why she needed e and there was still an ungodly aht and wrong of things, but he respected h that if I could sell the act that this woman mattered to me on some deeper level, he would back off He wouldn’t like it In fact he would absolutely hate it, but he would still do it

“Bax is my problem He always has been and you probably don’t want to call him Shane to his face”