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She lifted a shoulder and let it fall “I watched Dovie fall in love with Shane, not Bax He seems less scary as Shane”
I grunted because Shane and Bax were two parts that made up the entire erous but she didn’t need to know that, so I y room and ordered, “Grab your stuff”
She gave me a lopsided smile “I don’t have any stuff”
She had said that but I hadn’t really believed her What kind of woman could run with literally just the clothes on her back? One that was built to survive no matter what I answered my own question
I sighed and walked over to the door “All right, let’s get out of here I need to get down to the docks”
She nodded a little and went to move past me as I jerked the paper-thin door open I stiffened automatically when she paused in front of me and titled her head back so that she could look me in the eyes
“For what it’s worth, you are very convincing at pretending to like me, Titus For a second there before your phone went off, I almost believed you”
She slipped pastlike bricks at my feet
IT TOOK A LITTLE bit to get her to the apartet her inside with the orders to lay low until she heard from me Bax’s old studio would work for now but I needed to find soh that Roark would knohere she was at—where ere at, pretending to be infatuated with each other My plan sort of fell apart after that, though I knew I needed to get Roark to show himself, but after he did, I wasn’t one hundred percent sure how that would play out I wanted to be confident enough in myself that I could simply arrest him and take hiuy was violent and he was pissed, so I doubted that would be the case Once I had Reeve soan, I would hammer out the rest of the details The devil always hid in those little fuckers
The ride to the District was silent and tense The look on her face when she took in the battered condition of Bax’s old bachelor pad was priceless I assured her Dovie had scrubbed the place down since they stayed there occasionally when Bax worked late at the garage he owned I proet an STD from the bathroom here than she was from the no-tell motel
She didn’t reply and I didn’t bother to tell her good-bye, but I did tell her to keep her head down and try not to attract attention The only way a girl that looked like her could do that was by not going outside, and by ordering pizza and Chinese food It was a crappy plan but it would have to do She gave me a hard look, which reminded me that she had taken off with hardly any h I had handed over a feenties that I could see she wanted to refuse Reeve didn’t want to rely on me any more than I wanted to be the only one in a position to help her out
By the ti on fuet through the fact that soirl who lost her life for zero reason The scene was chaotic There were a lot of cops crawling all over the place and theover the body Well, they were surveying as left of the body The poor girl had been through hell and Roark hadthat this was a e