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From the mouths of babes I shared a look with Booker and had to bite back a grin Here this little girl was infatuated with a ot paid to break necks and sht Titus was mean and scary

“It’s challenging to be a good man in a bad place He’s the odd man out and it makes him hard”

She grinned a little “Plus having Bax for a brother would make anyone cranky”

It was a soroup wasn’t around on this Friday night Booker pushed his plate away and leaned over to nudge Karsen with his shoulder She immediately turned a neon pink, and it was so cute I just wanted to hug her A pang hit ht about how innocent and sweet Rissa had been before the city had gotten to her The unfairness of it scalded

“Bax is a fighter He won’t leave Dovie on her own, no way in hell He’ll pull through because there is no way he’s going to let a piece of crap trash truck be the reason he goes out And when Bax wakes up, this Roark asshole is going to be in for a hurting He just got the ’Cuda running the way he wanted Now that he has to start all over he’s going to be furious” Booker sounded certain and it was oddly co

Theup the kitchen and Booker told Karsen he would walk her back downstairs to her own place While she was gathering up her stuff and over the noise of the dishwasher, those swirly blue-and-gray eyes of his settled on un, but if the cop finds out about it you’re on your own”

He held up his hands and backed away toward the door, where the blond teenager aiting The way she atching himI wondered if he had ever been anyone’s hero before

I waited until they were out the front door before whispering into the empty apartment, “I’m always on my own”

Feeling melancholy and useless, I curled up on the h channels I wanted to be at the hospital I wanted to be there for Titus and I wanted to be a good friend to Dovie She deserved that And now that I could so easily see what doing the right thing was, I felt like I deserved a shot to be that for her and to be whatever it was that Titus needed The cop ht only need s he kept so tightly controlled inside of him needed so much more I could take care of all of him if he would just let me

I feel asleep watching some movie about a bunch of kids thrown into a futuristic battle for survival I enjoyed it and really loved the girl that was theto survive, being forced to eat or be eaten, hit too close to home and eventually my attention wandered and I crashed out before I sa it all ended

I woke up to the sound of the door clicking closed and the thuainst the wooden floors At first I was a little bit disoriented because the early-dawn rays of sunlight were drifting though the untinted s I hadn’t powered dohen I fell asleep last night I had no clue what ti I had slept There was an aura of unrest circling Titus that had h alert as he tossed his keys on the counter and then un and his shield