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He looked jagged anda full beard covering the lower part of his face His eyes were too bright and so blistering hot that they gleamed like blue lasers His mouth isted in a harsh frown and the furroeen his eyebroas so deep it looked like it was going to be a permanent part of his face froht and that white spot that decorated his tee wrapped around one hand and soht fighter that had just gone nine rounds and no winner had been declared

“Is Shane awake? I wasn’t expecting you back anytime soon”

Fury flavored the air as he s underneath me

“He woke up yesterday afternoon He can’t talk since his jaired shut and it’s still touch and go because he lost sothe inized me and Dovie, so the doctors kicked me out and told us that he needed time”

“Oh” My heart squeezed painfully It would have been nice of him to let me know Bax had opened his eyes “I tried to text you a couple of ti”

He prowled closer, his eyes roving over me like a physical touch This was not the calm and collected cop that kept the streets safe This was the wild man that made a deal with a woman he didn’t trust and then let her put her hands and mouth all over him because he couldn’t resist the pull This was the beast that wanted, needed, and craved being fed He was practically vibrating with the eer, lust, fear, sorrow, regret, guilt, re for top position as he watched me and prowled closer and closer

“I chuckedI can’t figure out how he knehere Bax was going to be at that exact moment He’s everywhere I’ve been at the hospital nonstop since then, so I didn’t have a chance to get a new one yet I only left to run to the garage to grab a shower or to go to the station to see if anyone had anything nehere Roark ured Race or Brysen would’ve told Karsen or Booker as going on”

“No No one mentioned that he ake It would’ve been nice to know” I couldn’t keep the sharpness out of my tone Bax wasn’t my favorite, but he mattered to Titus, so that meant he mattered to me

He got to the back of the couch and rested his hands on the cushions He was towering over me and I knew it should make me nervous with the mood he was in, but this was Titus He wouldn’t hurt me He wouldn’t hurt anyone, no ood for that

“I think everyone was so relieved that he finally opened his eyes that was all they could think about Brysen orried about Dovie and Race was a nervous wreck He and Bax are like brothers, so it was hard on everyone to see him like that So broken and so still That’s not Bax”