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Lialy so that she’d never want you, but I swear I’d never kill you That’s just bad form” Liam frowned at Hammer “There’s only one person that I’d like to unload a forty-five on, and that’s her dad”

“Here Here” He agreed, raising his bottle and clinking it against his old friend’s

“Neither one of you paid attention to her hands when she came in, did you?” Beck piped up

Both he and Liarave expression

“Her hands?” he asked, wondering what part of the conversation had slipped past him

“Yeah She went to visit her father yesterday”

Hammer’s heart nearly stopped

“What the bloody… You’re serious?” Liam blinked

“You’d better not be,” Hammer warned

When Beck gave a curt nod, he felt as if he’d been blown clear to the other side of the rooone back to that shithole, to see that animal, without him She could have been hurt Or Bill Kendall could have killed her

With cold precision, Halare “Why?”

“Do you really have to ask?” Beck sent hi stare

No Hammer had known she’d eventually seek out Bill for answers, vindication…closure But da and protecting her “You didn’t fucking let her go alone, did you?”

“Of course not, ass-hat”

“Tell us what happened before I beat the truth out of you,” Liam demanded

Beck shook his head “Whatever You’re so… what is it you guys across the pond call it? Pissed Yeah You’re so pissed drunk, you couldn’t beat yourself off”

“I’rowled “And yes, I could, if I wanted to” He scoffed, drinking down e the subject”

“Did Bill touch her?” Haht now so I can plant a bullet in his miserable head”

“Settle down, Lone Ranger I already covered that contingency” Beck gave hiun out and sited right between the son of a bitch’s eyes every fucking second But she didn’t need me You reo?”

“Yeah” It took him a minute for the puzzle pieces to fall into place, but when they did, Harinned “She kicked his ass, didn’t she?”

“Like a ninja” Beck grinned