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She waited till the taillights froe “Do you think he’s going to tell anyone?”

“Just the whole damn town,” Zeke said

“I was afraid you’re were going to say that”

They both began to laugh It felt good This easy camaraderie between them that they hadn’t had in months And it wasn’t just because of the sex Of course, that had gone a long way to producing this relaxed feeling But it wasthe inevitable

He must have felt it, too, because he put his arht now, but I’ll think about telling Allie You’re right, at the very least, she probably deserves to know he’s still alive”

She tried to keep her voice calm, hat she really wanted was to shout down the sky It’s about tiht e his ht with her, or you’ll never forgive yourself”

It was a hell of thingZeke prided hi ayour comrades was more than just a code of honor It could save your life

It had been over teeks since couples Bunco He told Mi Allie of the existence of Saan with that bullshit line, I can’t pro that he would at least consider it, when all along he kneould never happen

But soive It was the second week of May and he and Mi apart for almost four months now The Neanderthal in hiht, that part of him did exist) was ready to toss Mimi over his shoulder and take her back to his cave Not such a politically correct thought for a twenty-first century man, but there it was It all came down to that most basic and primal instinct to protect not only his woman, but everyone else he loved, too

Then there was the rational part of hiht with his brain and tried to use reason and logic to solve a probleotten hie of thirty-four, when there were nu for the job

It was that rational part he was, at this veryto channel Allie was smart, probably a lot smarter than hihteen years was a long tiht to make up her own mind as far as Sam Grant was concerned

Zeke opened up his laptop His fingers twitched above the keyboard Why had he never done this before? Probably because he was afraid of what he’d find He had all the information he needed Name, date of birth Hell, he even knew the son-of-a-bitch’s social security nu out all of Sam Grant’s dirty little secrets And find them out, he would, because he wasn’t about to expose his fa with

He clicked on the link and began typing, then sat back and waited What popped up on his screen hten

There was an arrest for drunken and disorderly conduct in Pensacola, just three months after Mom’s death

Then a second arrest, this tio A coincidence? Zeke wasn’t sure He read on Sauilty He’d paid a fine, had his driver’s license taken away and served two years’ probation