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“I’ about my father and brothers locked up there, and Uncle Stuart”

“Do you think you’ll get them out?”

“Yeah, we have to” There was no way his uncle was going to take over and run the Denton family business His father told hi put in jail He was a law unto hie to his own reputation before this was over

Beco a doctor hadn’t tempered the monster inside hian to yawn “I’m so sorry I feel so sleepy”

“Then get so” He pressed another kiss to her head, and watched as she started to fall asleep It wasn’t long before she passed out, and sleep took her For severalthe peace that washed over hiin to describe Abel, Jacob, and Oliver had all felt the sa Landon felt

It was crazy When sleep wasn’t easy to come by, he ed over the years There were no large posters of irls He’d been a classic teenager, and his bedrooh many transformations

Leaving the bedroo from his father’s study For the first time in his life, he actually missed his father, and knew jail wasn’t the place for him

Entering the office, he saw Rick still up and still working His mother, Charlotte, was passed out on the sofa with a blanket thrown over her

“Couldn’t sleep?”

“No There’s a lot of shit to do”

“I’d be spending tiht about now, and believe me that is where I would want to be, but as it happens, I’ up after my brothers’ mess” Rick continued to type even as he spoke

Da what he’d seen, or even what he was doing Before he could say so

“You knoe Dentons have a reputation for sticking together No matter what happens, we are united as one It doesn’t ether You try to take on one, you take us all on We’ve always been a big faht now there’s no way in hell ofmy woman I’ot a few years before I’ine” Finally, Rick looked up at hiood Anyway, back to what I was saying Oh yeah, that’s right Fa shit Your father fucked up when he screwed the Colton whore It wasn’t supposed to end up with a kid, but you knohat? We got Gabriel, and you got Wyatt and Owen ood men I can see that, and your father can see that The probleot is as a family, this little hiccup caused this”

“No, it didn’t”

Rick sla Charlotte up “It did, and you don’t for a second interruptchild, and so are all of your brothers, and to a point so is et your head out of your fucking asses and deal with the probleirls, and guess what? It’s come to bite you in the ass”