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045. Was it him?

Author: Dark Ocean
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-28 23:59:07

JAYCE BECKETT

After dragging Renato all the way here from the bar, one question kept haunting me: why was I even doing this? Why did his pain ignite my anger? And more disturbingly, why did his silence enrage me?

I was seething, furious with myself for letting my emotions get the better of me. Why had I snapped at him? What did I care if he was hurt?

Renato Marino was the last person I'd go out of my way to help, so why did his pain seem to matter?

Renato was far from a good man, he'd earned whatever happened to him, and probably worse.

A deep, guttural grunt rumbled through the backseat, the kind that could be mistaken for a wounded animal. I'd heard sounds like that before, on hunting trips with my father at our summer house, the same desperate, pained noises those animals made.

Renato's sounds weren't much different.

My mind screamed at me to glance back, to check on him, but I refused. I kept my eyes fixed on the road, unwilling to face those deep stab wounds again.

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  • Break Me Apart (MxM)   131.

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