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I’d had enough “It’s harder being the good guys Think on that Everyone else, shut up”

We rode in silence as Gus’ tail beat against the vinyl

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Raize was on edge I e

But he wouldn’t talk to anyone, even me

We drove to Balti rooht outside the doors No one watched anyone at a place like this There were a few girls working the corner, so Raize sent Cavers to find out who their pimp was After that, he laid a bunch of papers out on one bed in his room, his hands on his hips as he studied them

He’d been studying them for an hour now Maybe two

Cavers carunted when he told him He never looked away from those papers

I was standing and watching Raize, trying not to be obvious about it He shut the door, then motioned for me to follow him Jake came over Gus as well

“What’s going on?” Jake asked in a whisper

“No fucking clue,” Cavers said “He told et a car for hiassed, and put all the weapons in the trunk He wanted a nondescript car I don’t know if I want to knohat he’s planning, because whatever it is, it ain’t like anything we’ve done Or I’ he’s done—”

“I have twelve targets”

Raize stood in the connecting room’s now-opened door His hands were balled into fists at his sides, his eyes shining with a fierceness I’d only seen in a few private moments

“And I have two days to hit the city”

I started for hi to the side “No Don’t touch me, not now”

I ignored hi myself to his chest

My hands tunneled up into the back of his shirt, letting hiainst his

He didn’t hug me back I didn’t expect it

But he did groan, and I felt that through his chest

“I have to coh to classify me as a serial killer,” he said “You do not need to comfort me”

I tipped one