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Nobody celebrated.
I woke the next morning expecting something to feel different. I thought I might hear motorcycles outside, remember that Hell’s Fire couldn’t operate the way it had before, and finally feel the relief my body had apparently forgotten how to produce.
Instead, I lay between Nixx and Benny and listened to them breathe.
Havoc was still missing. Kinsley was still missing. There were arrests and evidence scenes and records sitting in boxes somewhere, but none of that changed the fact that my body felt like it had been running for months and had only just realized nobody was asking it to sprint today.
Benny shifted beside me. “You awake?”
“Unfortunately.”
His hand found mine beneath the blanket.
On my other side, Nixx grunted. “Some of us were sleeping.”
“You were l
