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Raize’s eyes were cool, but he didn’t argue He raised his aruy went to hiuy came to me

Raize grohen he touched my arm “Be careful with her She’s mine”

She’s mine

I gulped, a chill twining around that tingling sensation from before

The guy gave Raize a dark look, but his hands barely skiht He didn’t plaster the sweatshirt against me so he missed the part smack in the middle of my back

They stepped back when they were done, and the door opened once rin at Raize He was bald, ebony skin, and dark eyes Those eyes were lit up in a? So else? I couldn’t tell

A sed at hisout the half-smile “Well, well, well I would never believe it if I wasn’t seeing it with my own eyes Can’t believe you came back, hombre”

“Yeah Well” Raize shrugged “You know this business”

A rin faded “I do You want to see him, huh?”

“I have to”

“Got it” The guy’s gaze lingered on ”

I was noting that neither said each other’s na like it

Then ere going inside, and I didn’t knohat I had thought it was earlier, but I wouldn’t have guessed a strip club

It was a strip club

Everything was so dark I knealking past people, but I couldn’t see them—could only hear them, sense them, almost feel the movement in the booths as ent past The air in the rooar, sweat, booze, body lotion, self-tanner, perfuh Broo—nope I needed to shut down those memories

Why were they co in this world for over a year?

We were taken down a back hallway It had little lights on the floor until we came to an office