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Bianca walked over and into his arms She wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest They stood there like that for a moment It shouldn’t have helped, but it did It was as if the energy he’d spent keeping the lid on all the bad memories had exhausted him in ways he hadn’t realized

Holy shit, you’ll be writing some touchy-feely self-help book next Man up, Hazard

“Is he still alive?” she asked, her breath warainst his chest

“No clue After I left, I never went back and he never ca for me”

“What about your mom? Did she come after you?”

“She couldn’t She was six feet under by my fourteenth birthday and we broke into Devil’s Dip Gyed forever because of Freddie Atlas

She squeezed hi up as I was”

“Pretty much” As weird as it seemed, it was true She may have been born with a silver spoon in her mouth compared to his wooden one, but at the core they were more alike than different

“Thank you I know the past twenty-four hours hasn’t been easy”

“Is that all it’s been? It feels like a lifeti about the married to this moment, it seemed like forever

“Look, e get back to Ft Worth—”

The sound of walkie-talkie feedback silenced whatever she was going to say next Taz whipped his head around to the security room’s closed door

“Yeah, man, I’m in the room now,” a man’s voice filtered in fro so fast from the cafeteria Jay-sus, Bob, do you have to be on ?”

The coed

A download coe flashed on the screen