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“I wasn’t going to touch you again, when I sent a man to Raize for you,” he informed me “I’d heard what you could do”

My stomach rolled over, because I knew that wasn’t true

“I mean it”

“You’re a rapist,” Jake spat “That kind of sick doesn’t change You’re sick You stay sick Sick fucking monster”

Bronski shook his head “Right Because you’re so much better? Raize doesn’t rape, but he has just as much blood on him The dude is a one-man army Do you even knohat he can do? Can really do? How many men he’s actually killed?”

“We’ve both seen hi to shock us”

Bronski looked between us “Is he fucking her?”

I shot Jake a look I didn’t want anything said about that

Bronski s?”

Jake heaved a sigh “New topic, asswipe That’s old”

He fell silent So did Jake

I was grateful to feel the weight ofI’d pulled it out when Bronski first spoke, but I hadn’t picked it up It was ready to go, though Just lift, aim, and pull Then I’d be a different kind of killer

I was still waiting, though I didn’t knohy

“You told Korkov your na Once the ru around about you—the canary in the streets—I remembered where Korkov told me he’d picked you up at Massachusetts I don’t reirls there Picking theirl named Brooke came from that circuit, but she had dark hair, dark eyes The face, though… I saw her last week and got to thinking She still goes by Brooke Same face”

My heart pounded My sister is alive?

Bronski tried to raise his ar them around “She had a tattoo on the inside of her wrist A four-leaf clover, or so like that”

It was a pot of gold

God

I wanted him to shut up

I wanted hi

“Wait No It was… What was it? A pot of so Not a leprechaun—a pot of gold! Yeah That’s what it was”

He knew her

He saw her

She was alive

There’s no way he could uess that tattoo randomly

Maxim?