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I couldn’t help it. I smiled against his neck.
“You’re going to have to explain to me about Darius,” I whispered.
Eddie didn’t hesitate.
“When we were kids, we were close. He was a good guy. A little wild, less wild than Lee and me.”
From what I learned that night, I thought it would be difficult to bemorewild than Eddie.
Eddie kept talking. “His dad was murdered and he and his family had it rough. He took a road that seemed easy at the time, quick money and a way to work out his shit. That road became harder, but he’d chosen the path and now refuses to look back.”
“That sounds very sad,” I noted.
And it did.
Eddie made no comment. Being Darius’s friend through it all, he knew just how sad it was.
“Why was he here in the middle of the night?” I asked.
Eddie paused, as if wondering whether it was safe to share. Then he spoke. “We work together sometimes, when it’s mutually beneficial, but we keep it quiet. The department wants him taken out and they aren’t too happy with our relationship. I’m vice and not tremendously popular with the brothers.”
“It’s not safe,” I concluded.
“No. It’s not safe.”
“For either of you?”
“No.”
“But you’re working together now?”
He didn’t answer.
“For me?” I pushed.
He didn’t answer.
“I think you might be a little scary,” I told him.
He turned to his back and pulled me into his side. “Don’t listen to my aunts. I’m not nearly as scary as they want me to be.”
He was wrong.
He was terrifying.
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The alarm went off, Eddie touched a button and rolled out of bed.
I snuggled into the pillow.
He wrapped a hand around my wrist and pulled me out of bed.
“What are you doing?” I asked, half asleep, half pissed off and halfway across the room.
“Time to shower, then time to find bad guys,” Eddie replied.
