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“You’re not bait.”
There it was. The sentence I’d managed not to say during the entire meeting came out less than thirty seconds after everybody left.
JJ didn’t flinch. She sat beside me with our hands still joined, wearing the patient look that usually meant she was waiting for me to run out of bullshit.
“I know.”
“No, I mean it. You’re not something we put somewhere and wait to see what comes sniffing around.”
“I know.”
“I f*****g hate this.”
“That part I definitely know.”
I let go of her hand and stood because sitting still had become impossible. Havoc had spent years treating her like something he owned. He had used Millie to control her, beaten her, watched her, and then stood over me while two men kicked the s**t out of me and talked about the family I had supposedly ta
