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“What do you think it is?” Owen asked

“I think the Dentons are fair I’ve seen the way they work” He glanced at the apartment “Where’s Emma?”

“She’s at work She’s working in administration for Maddox”

“Oh, I had no idea”

“You’ve not exactly been around a whole lot since you got your new family”

Gabriel closed his eyes, taking a few seconds to get his temper under control “You’re still my brothers, and I lo

ve you We have a real chance here Don’t you want to take that?”

“We do, which is e’re heading out The good thing about being seen as the scum of the world, people tend to talk, to show everyone else that they’re better than you,” Wyatt said “We’ll be back with info for you Make yourself at home”

Within seconds he was alone in his brothers’ apart theo To try to take so back for themselves, and he’d been part of it Of course that had all changed when the truth of who his father really was caht after another

Three weeks later

Da for the rumors Gabriel asked hi Instead, Da around Mia He didn’t want to leave her behind, and he found any excuse to ht, he would spend hours watching her sleep He’d always been a light sleeper, and he’d never neededMia he hadn’t touched a drop of alcohol, and he’d been able to get his shit together The guilt was still there over Betty, and he doubted it would ever go away He didn’t love the woman, but he felt responsible for her Uncle Stuart tried to help him, but like he told him, the woman he hurt was still alive Betty had taken her life Harper also visited often He’d noticed that Lou, Harper, Ruby, and histi hi tiet to know her Whenever she was in the kitchen she was always going through the cookbooks she had open, and she’d suck in the corner of her lip

When they were sitting together watching television he found hi screen For the first time in his life, he knehat real happiness was He didn’t need the sex, or anything else Just being near her was enough

At home hen he was at peace Work, however, was nonstop His father kept hione e of finding the for the into last known sightings in the police force, but so far, nada

His gut was telling hi to happen, and it was linked to the divide that had been noticed in the Dentons Even Damian had seen it Landon was back, and instead of the brothers working together as they had been known to do, many of them, himself included, had chosen to work alone

Da one of the strip clubs that they ohen he got a call He saas Gabriel