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“No, I’m not pissed anymore I understand why you did what you did, but that’s only because I’ve been there The guys” I turned my hand back and forth in a so-sotheir woo caveman on you Give it time Race will see the entire picture sooner or later”
“What about the cop?”
I shrugged “He doesn’t love that I got beat up, and he doesn’t love that you gotcare ofat straws So, but in the end your actions brought Conner down, and that’s all that et probation for skipping on your bond, though”
He wheezed again, which I think was a laugh “He let you keep the gun?”
I nodded a little “No But he gotit with more clearly defined lines than I did before It was actually pretty fun when I had my own sexy cop around to enforce the rules
“Good I don’t want you to lose your edge” His eyelids started to droop, so I reached out and squeezed one of his hands Despite it all, Booker’s heart had been in the right place even if hethat was painfully familiar to me
“Those edges just sainst the person that is your rock, my friend”
He gru and let his eyes drift closed “I don’t need a rock I’, but I did think of the doe-eyed teenager that had just snuck in to see him Sometimes rocks were tiny pebbles tossed around in a storer boulder, slowly, silently chipping away at the surface
I slipped out of the rooet back to Titus He didn’t throw the L-word around a lotin fact he had only said it to me twice The day after Conner was hauled away by the coroner and the day he finally came home from the hospital when he was still stoned out of his mind on pain pills It didn’t bother me because the next day he had handed over the keys to that Liberty Bluewas out of the cast If that wasn’t a full-on declaration of love and devotion, then I didn’t knoas The keys to the GTO were better than any diaive me
I parked the car in the alley behind the house and h the back door The kitchen was ato hed under my breath and threw my purse on the table It took e, rinse off the dishes, and wipe down the counters I was irritated when I went to go find hioodness’ sake