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“I won’t let anything happen to you If you give them respect, my brothers will return it You don’t seem like the type to mouth off, but I’ll tell you now that equality shit doesn’t fly here If you give the to shut you down”

Her stomach dropped into her shoes She felt like she was on a roller coaster, and the sensation made her feel alive Like a hypothermia victim immersed in ater it was a painful yet necessary process

“You trust me?” he asked

“I don’t knohy, but I do,” she stated, closing the door behind her

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Snake

She stopped in the doorway “Before we go in, I have one question”

“What’s that?” he asked, unsure of what she’d say The woman was a wreck A beautiful disaster to be sure, but unpredictable as hell It kept him on his toes and touched one of his few soft spots He remeet him on the path He wanted to pay the favor forward

“What’s your name?”

“Xavier”

“That’s a good, strong name,” she whispered

“Yeah, uided her inside He didn’t expand on the explanation; this visit wasn’t about him He’d never met a woman who could hold a candle to his wife, Jade, and Estelle was his wife’s polar opposite Women could war in his life or touch the dead organ that remained behind in his sternuh his veins, but that’s where it ended

“Holy shit, you ordered some entertainment? What is she, a business lady?” a voice crowed

Snake met a pair of black eyes filled with filthy intentions

“No, Dirty, she’s not”