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His eyes cut in my direction and I instinctively braced my hand on the dashboard as he whipped the

“No I didn’t feel guilty about locking hi the law, and he didn’t care enough not to get caught I felt guilty that I was the reason he didn’t care I felt bad that I was the reason he was a criminal in the first place I left Bax to fend for himself with a drunk mother and a mobster father He never had a chance and I knew it, but I left hi the one person I was supposed to keep safe was one of the driving factors in o into law enforcement I built the GTO to show hiether before he hated uy The words wouldn’t get through, but I thought maybe the car would”

“That’s why you paid his rent while he was locked up? You wanted to show him that you cared?”

Titus grunted in agreement and turned his eyes back to the road I settled back in the bucket seat and watched hi way faster than the speed li one of the laws he was ada Titus was a complex ht I knew his relationship with Bax was complicated and that the brothers were polar opposites, but I hadn’t known that Titus had demons from his past and fro to him It made him seem less infallible, more human It made me want him even more, which I didn’t think was possible

“Where are we going exactly?” We hadn’t left the Point In fact ere going deeper into it, past the District and all the way out to the docks No one went to the docks unless they wanted toillegal out or ship soal in

“Race has a place on the docks He’s turned it into his own little command center He has his own muscle and his own security system set up around it since his lady and her sister live there with hiood as protective custody, but it’s still in the city and visible enough that should Conner want to make a move he’ll knohere to find us”

I fidgeted nervously “It’s also where he left that girl that looked like me”

Titus sighed “I know But it’s the best option for e’re trying to accomplish You’ll be safe while I work, and that means I won’t have my attention divided between my job and your safety”

A trickle of war to freeze up toward him “I wouldn’t think you would care if I was safe or not After all, I’ot myself into this mess”

I rolled my head to the side so I could look at hi to hold whatever he was feeling inside had started to work at his jaw His big hands tightened on the steering wheel and he bit out, “We can’t always control what or e care about Didn’t you learn that lesson the hard ith Roark?”