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I s is shut “Good luck, Key I wouldn’t want to be you when Nassir finally catches up to you, but I pros you back”

The cabdriver took off as soon as metal touched metal and I crossed o up to Bax’s rooether, so I went to the snack bar and got myself a bottle of water to bide so to givemy hooks into his brother He was injured and needed to focus on getting better I tookarea to sit in for a little bit, flipping through old ured Titus would be wondering where I had gotten off to by then, so I headed back to the elevators to take me up to the intensive care unit

When the doors opened I ran i aroundme backward the way I had just came Titus wore a thunderous expression on his face and lookedto e Bax could do confined to a hospital bed and unable to speak

“Are you okay?” Those heavily htened a fraction around me

“No My brother is a dipshit and reasoning with hiainst the wall”

“He really doesn’t want Dovie here?” That was sad and wrong in so many ways

“Oh, he wants her here, but not until he gets rid of the arets to take a shot at Roark Bax thinks once Roark hears that he survived the crash, he’ll coun”

“Oh no He didn’t really ask you that? He had to know you would say no” I shivered at the uncanny way Bax’s plan echoed my own

“Of course he knew It was just his none too subtle way of telling me what he has up his sleeve so I’oes to hell And you knohat sucks? Of course I told him to fuck off, but Race won’t If Bax asks Race to help him set this up, he will Goddammit Everyone I love has a death wish”

He put his arm around me and tucked me into his side, and I wrapped an arm around his lean waist It was such a nor to do it made my heart thump a happy beat and I immediately chastised ory of more and Titus wasn’t there yet And if he knehat I was planning, knew that this was going to end with me dead or behind bars, more wouldn’t even be an option, so why couldn’t I stopit every tia dangerous game of chicken with fate

“Did you tell him what you and I have been up to?”

He grunted and paused next to the sparkly-blue car I was stunned when he bent his head down and gave le all the way to my toes

“I told hi I told him he doesn’t have to like it, but it is what it is He was surprisingly quiet on the subject, well quieter than he was about other stuff He told et my dick shot off”

I cringed and ran my hands up his chest I loved the way he felt so solid and hard I liked to think of him as unbreakable, bulletproof, even if it wasn’t true I curled my hands around the back of his neck and drew him down so I could kiss him much softer than he kissed me