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“You are Mae’s love? Styx?” she asked in that same weird accent

Glancing at my woman, I smirked Her love? Shit I nodded my head Mae blushed and smiled

“Did you kill anyone else out here?” Maddie asked, her tiny voice shaking, but her stern green eyes were anything but

I nodded

She took a deep breath “Where is he?”

I stilled A bitch like her shouldn’t be seeing what Flame had done It weren’t pretty

“Please! I need to see hier

I pointed ed across the clearing and into the trees

I stepped up to Mae and signed, You’re gonna need to get your girl, babe She ain’t gonna cope seeing that shit

Mae closed her eyes and rubbed theet her fk home

Maddie chose that second to re-enter the clearing Her face was blank and she’d stopped shaking In fact, color had returned to her face Mae rushed over, but Maddie thrust out her hand Mae stopped in response

“Sister?” Mae questioned, but Maddie ignored her, heading instead to the brothers

“Who killed hi down the line

On the end of the line, Fla into fists Fuck It had to be Flaonna end well if she started shooting off her mouth

Maddie fixed her gaze on Flame “Was it you?” she asked frankly

Flahtened “Yeah, I killed the fker” His tattooed orange flames danced on his tense neck as his crazy black eyes fixed on Maddie A fkin’ lare

Maddie stood right in front of hiht—as Flame’s chest jerked erratically Then, suddenly, she released a choked sob and threw her arms around Flame’s waist

Flame froze and his black eyes widened to the size of plates His hands shot up in the air clenching into fists Fuck! The brother couldn’t be touched He was about to go nuclear

“Thank you,” Maddie whispered and pressed her cheek flat to his cut “Thank you so very much…”

Flalared down at her wrapped ’round his waist Then we all froze as his hands lowered and flattened aardly on her back His nostrils flared as Maddie released another sob and cried, “You freed me You freed me from him”

Flames eyes squeezed shut and his teeth clenched But he didn’t push her off, didn’t scream, jerk, or hit out The fked-up brother just let it happen