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I coughed and spit up another asped out a wheezing laugh

“You can kill round You can do your worst to anyone and everyone that dares to call this place home, but even after you lay waste to the whole city, you still won’t have what you wanta girl that is worth dying for She’ll kill you first” I hoped it didn’t come to that but I knew she would if he pushed her to it

“No e the fact she chose me and the Point over you You’re just as twisted and ood enough for irl”

“Your girl?” The accented voice was hard, furious, and I knew I had hit a raw nerve

“Mine”

“She chose wrong I could have laid this city at her feet” He sounded al to portray instead of the murderous asshole he really was

“If she wanted the city at her feet she would have put it there herself That’s why you never deserved her, you prick You never understood she could run circles around you in the e departh to know that there had to be more to life than that I’m her more You were just a means to an end” I should’ve just kept mythe gun in ainst my front teeth He looked atout of his dark eyes, and I saw his finger twitch on the trigger It was tis

The world exploded

BANG!

I saw Roark jerk violently as bullets started to fly all around the cavernous warehouse space His eyes stayed locked on un in his hand falling haruys started to scatter as the roouys wearing black jackets embellished with US MARSHAL across the back I ducked ainst the pipe aboveA familiar face appeared as a man dressed in a polo shirt covered in Kevlar dashed into the fray and stopped at Conner’s body He kicked a guy aside as he bent down to check Conner’s pulse and frowned He looked up where I was dangling and then maneuvered around his men and the bodies of Roark’s crehere they lay

“You got a key for those, King? You look like shit, by the way”

“Inyou got there, Packard” Not that I wasn’t happy to see hi I was about to eat a bullet