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I asked if he had ever been married or if he had any kids, and he just snorted, which led to a round of coughing that lasted five minutes He told me he had been screwed over by a woain He explained that he had met a beautiful Irish lass while he was stationed in Turkey She pursued him, seduced hiain access to weapons she would never have been able to get her hands on otherwise She used his na hi the way He called her a terrorist and then finally, after what felt like hours, mentioned the kid

A few years after he had been kicked out of the arraced and shamed, the woman contacted him to let him know that he had a son She wanted money and she wanted his naraced soldier agreed because despite how she had screwed hi their son right was the way to win her heart

Only the boy showed up and thewith hiuidance, but every suether the boy seemed to be worse The man wanted to blame the mother; after all, she was a killer and a terrible person in her own right, but the boy seemed rotten to his very core He ild He was disrespectful He was cruel to ani He was explosively violent, but what really worried the man was how effortlessly the boy could turn it on and off He told ht maybe he would finally turn it around

Only to his dishierous He told ht was his son was about four years ago The boy had co out of theto the Border Patrol Thewith his son, but what happened had scarred him forever and ripped them apart instead

According to theafter Christhtwoone Sure, it could just be two young lovers escaping for a quiet moment alone, but the man knew better, so he went to find his troubled son

The boy had the girl pinned down in the barn, a knife to her neck and seconds away froirl, they struggled, and the ut for his troubles

“I knew you were too weak and pathetic to beWith that, the son kicked him in the ribs and disappeared out of thethe poor bastard that had raised hihter and had survived the destruction both the mother and son had leveled at him He was all too happy to tell me all about it

While he talked ht across my body and I felt a tick start to work instarted to land inbut a fa in front of my eyes I cleared my throat and asked the man if he had any idea who the kid’s real dad was and the man replied, “Someone just as twisted, brutal, and messed up as he was”

I thanked the man for his tih that it moved two inches across the floor

“Son of a bitch!” I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of the connection sooner Just like Novak had tried to sink his claws into Bax in order to groo with his other illegitimate spawn out there in the world

Roark had to be Novak’s son, and of course the cri to do with hih to be useful When Roark joined the Border Patrol, Novak swooped in and got his hands on his already tainted offspring He had done the sa cars proved useful It all clicked into place and it made my heart start to pound