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“And if I let you back in and you hurt me again, I’ll hate myself more than I already do.”
“Please don’t ask me to say goodbye. I’ll give you anything but that.”
“I don’t want to hurt you. Believe it or not, I don’t like seeing you and Hawk in pain because of me, but I don’t know how to untangle everything. And now there’s E, and I don’t want to give him up on a what-if.”
“So, don’t.”
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t give him up.” I swallow down any anger and jealousy I feel toward the man. I know right now that if I force her to choose, she’ll choose him. Hawk’s right. To save the tattered bond between the three of us, we need Evander.
“Just don’t give us up either. While you’re getting to know Ev, do the same with me and Hawk. Get to know us all over again, with no secrets or lies between us.”
“I don’t understand. How will that help? In the end, someone will get hurt because I can’t have you all.”
“Why? Who said you can’t?”
Her mouth snaps shut as she stares at me in shock. I sit quietly as the wheels in her brain turn, hoping and praying she agrees to this.
“Are you saying date all of you?”
“I’m saying, I’d rather share you than lose you. I want you to be happy. I’m so sick of being the reason you cry. For once, I want to be the reason you smile.”
And she does that now. It’s small and a little shaky, but it’s genuine, and something about it loosens the knot in my chest. There are no promises exchanged between us, no commitments set in stone, but a truce has been called. And with it, the potential for a whole new chapter in our story.
“Let’s talk about something else for a minute. Fill me in on what I missed before.”
She moves to stand, and this time, I let her. Getting up, I adjust myself, making her blush and look away.
“Sorry, but I can’t be held responsible for my dick’s actions. He can’t control himself when he’s around you.” She giggles as we make our way to the kitchen. “Coffee?”
“Yes, please.”
“Alright, I’ll make the coffee while you tell me what it is I need to know.”
And she does, filling me in on what I missed.
“He was already working for them. That son of a fucking bitch.” I interrupt her.
“And that’s what everyone was upset about when you walked in.”
“Evander needs to dig into his financial—”
“Zig already has him on it. I think everyone is just having a hard time processing it all.”
“The man was a traitor. We knew that.”
“You knew he turned on you to save his wife’s life. You hate him, but a part of you can understand why he did what he did.”
And she’s right. As much as I despise everything Coop did, a part of me questioned what I would have done in his place. If Avery was facing a death sentence and I knew I could save her, would I have done the same thing?
“Now, though, the man who everyone thought at his core had noble intentions turns out to just be a bad guy. It’s like you have to mourn him all over again.”
I groan and scrub my hand over my face. I want to dig Cooper up just so I can strangle the fucker.
“There is something else, though, something I didn’t get to say earlier because you walked in. I think you should dig into the cases you guys took that involved Cooper.”
“Jesus. You think he was selling us out.”
