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Her blood was hot and stick as it leaked through ers “Key?” No response, so I pressed even harder and hollered, “Honor!”

Her eyes popped open and she snapped at me, “Don’t call me that”

I laughed a little and then was roughly pushed aside by hard hands I looked up at Nassir as he sank down on his knees next to us Without a word he stripped off his expensive suit jacket and tossed it to the ground It i feet

“You can’t die” His voice was harsh as he pulled off his pristine white shirt and balled it up into a e as he pressed it to the nasty wound The situation was dire, but even so I took a second to admire the landscape of smooth, burnished bronze skin he revealed Nassir wasn’t built like a mountain like Titus, but he sure was pretty and I’d had no idea the enigmatic club owner had a massive tattoo that covered his entire back From shoulder to shoulder and all the way down his spine and even into the top of his tailored slacks ink marked his skin I couldn’t ht tiood look at it

“I can do whatever the hell I want, Gates You don’t own led to breathe

To which he growled, “I would if you would let me”

I was glad Key sounded like she had soht back and now that some of the sht I didn’t knoas up with those two, Key and Nassir, but it was intense and slightly suffocating

Titus was kneeling next to Chuck, who also seee and I cringed when I saw the dancer crumpled like a lifeless doll in a heap I didn’t need to wonder if she was dead or not, the steady trickle of blood from the side of her head was a clear indicator She was too young to un was still clenched in her hand and there was scattered unpowder everywhere It looked like a scene out of a Tarantino movie

I h of relief when his eyes darted up to mine

“I knew soer on it I kept staring at her, trying to figure out if I kneho she was or if I had seen her soht have a warrant out or soun I should’ve known it was real”

Chuck grunted and asked Titus to help him up “It’s my job, man I’m the one that should’ve seen it” His dark eyes drifted over to where Nassir was leaning over Keelyn “Better get soirl dies he will lose his ever-loving mind”

“I already called it in” Titus put his hands on his hips and survived the carnage that surrounded us “Who was she?”

Chuck was poking at his shoulder and I saw him totter on his feet a little as he prodded the wound I reached out a hand to steady hiirl had fallen I wondered if it was Titus who had taken the shot or one of the other guys