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Chapter 1

Gracie

The nu the headache I had any better Nope Not even a little Sighing, I closedthat with a little distance the numbers that had been sadly low and represented the aically increase Or at the least, make my head feel a little better

Neither happened Figures

“Fudge,” I grumbled as I stood anddown to look over my finances

As I took a s black coffee I tried to keep ans for over two months now, and they all seemed to like me I adored the to a family I’d had since my mother’s death

But I couldn’t stay here any me to sleep in the same bed with a man who I was seriously infatuated with—da in love with At first I’d tried to ignore how I felt, howabout the man who had saved me from a fate that most would consider worse than death I’d even put it down to so, especially to an

So when he ca like cheap perfume mixed with his usual after-work scents of sweat, smoke, and booze, ht had been one of those nights when he s for ainst hi asleep

I’d lain there, calling ht back tears I knehat it roupies—or ‘sheep’, as Willa and Raven tended to call theht It meant that Hawk had probably hooked up with one of the into bed with me

Of course he would hook up with one of theht after all I didn’t have any say over hiirl who he’d saved froirl he continued to protect His holding entle care of me over the last few months, didn’t make me special to hi

I had no right to be jealous

As I’d laid there, listening to his breathing, feeling like I was being sne, I’d turned in his aro downstairs and sleep on the couch When I’d seen the lipstick on his jaw, and then on closer inspection on his neck, I’d felt likewas one thing I’d been able to handle that But seeing the proof that he’d let someone else put their lips on him where I ached to put mine…

I’d jurabbedat an as quickly as possible I couldn’t do this anymore I couldn’t stay here Couldn’t share a bed with a man I ached to touch and love Not and still hold onto my sanity My heart My self-respect

I needed to o The university housing was already filled up for the summer and the fall classes, and it wasn’t like I could afford it anyway All I had was enough money to pay for law school for one semester and a few little necessities There was none left over for housing As for financial aid? I didn’t qualify for it because technically I was still considered rich It didn’t ally linked to me Double damn

If I was going to et a job Maybe even two until school started back at the end of August

“Those hts”

My gaze lifted fro into reen eyes of Raven Hannigan She stood just a few feet aatching , blond hair was pulled back into a ponytail and she was dressed in torn jeans, a white T-shirt with the Hannigans’ logo on the left breast, and boots The girl was beautiful and was as scary as the devil hihter, I’d seen just how soft and loving she could be

“Just thinking,” I told the girl who had becoet a job Do you think I could start waitressing at Hannigans’?”

Raven’s eyes widened “Do you want my brother to kill someone?”

I snorted at her question “For working at your bar?”