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Eighty Six

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KADE'S POV

I glanced at Eric and something very heavy settled in my chest.

He was twenty five years old. A good man with an honest face and kind eyes who had done nothing but love the right people at the wrong time. He had been trapped in a bombing at a café. Had a leg that would go on to need months to properly heal. Had stood by to watch the woman he loved be wheeled into surgery not once but twice due to her proximity to my world.

And he was sitting in a hospital wheelchair asking me for a p
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