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“I know it didn’t” She narrows her eyes “So why? At least have the balls to say it, Maverick”

Fuck I hate that she backed h my hair and instead find my bare scalp

“I had a score to settle,” I adun to the arena to blow his head off It’s completely different”

“What if he had killed someone you love?” Her voice breaks and tears shine in her eyes “The person you love most in the world?”

I can’t believe we’re having this conversation The best night of s

“I wouldn’t getfor her hand “It’s not going to bring him back”

“I know that” She pulls away from me and wipes the tears away froht years My dad mattered, and this is the only way for Will Roan to pay for what he did”

I shakeup in his own shoes every day”

“You don’t know shit!” She picks up her heels and grabs her purse “If you really understood love, you’d know…I have to do this”

She walks over to the door and I follow, saying, “Gia, don’t”

Pausing with her hand on the doorknob, she sighs softly “I thought you knew ht you really knew me I’m not like other women My dad raised me to live by a code of honor”

“I live by a code of honor, too I get why you feel this way But this isn’t the way to handle it You’d be better off…I don’t know, hiring a private investigator to gather evidence against Will Roan and turn it over to the police It sounds like crime is his way of life”

She won’t even look at o”

“Not like this, Gia” I put a hand on her shoulder “You oddamn much to me Don’t walk out like this”

“What else is there to do?”

I shakeway to deep disappointment

“This is all you wanted, isn’t it? Just this one night and then you’re off to blow souy away and ruin your life”