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Our gazes locked as we both considered this I thought it was just ht the sa we had such an odd siut I didn’t knohat to make of it

“I couldn’t deal with it if it wasn’t for her,” Evan said quietly

“Me either,” I said “With Raine, I mean”

“All the more reason I should stay away froo I also can’t get out of my debt to Rinaldo At some point, it will become either her or him, and I can’t choose between them”

“You are fucked up” I took in a long breath and thought about it for a minute Evan was fucked up because of a war and whatever happened to him over there None of that shit was his fault What wasout on me? It all sounded kind of lame to me now

I was trying, though I tried to keep myself off the booze even if I had failed I wanted to be better for Raine, and I wanted to be a good father for Alex I didn’t have the slightest fucking idea what that entailed, but I fully intended to figure it out

Evan was different

He’d been cheating on his girl All right,what she didn’t want hiainst her wishes I had the feeling that he would ultimately side with Moretti, if it ever came to that It wasn’t the sament under a stressful situation and taken a drink He was actively planning his deceptions

“That doesn’t end my relationship with Franks,” I pointed out “Maybe that would secure your retirement, but I’d still be in the same situation”

“I’ll kill Franks,” he said simply

I stared at hi

If I acted on ht If everyone thought Evan was dead, and Franks got knocked off a while later, it would never be traced back to one, Franks would lose his hold over anization would be in a total uproar as they tried to figure out ould be in charge All otten

“So, what do you think? Evan asked

“Dude, I think you el,” I said “When this is over, I’ to tell Raine how much worse it could be”

“You can’t tell her that if you don’t get out of this,” he pointed out