Chapter 0283


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    “Kent!” | interrupt, frustrated again, smacking my hand against his stomach to make him listen to me. “Something is going down!


    Someone is trying to kill you, to kill us! And | want to help —*


    “Fay,” Kent sighs. “There’s nothing you can do to help — I’ve got it handled. And even if you could help, | don’t want you to help.”


    “Why not?” | ask, a little appalled.


    “Because” he says, turning his face towards me. “I don’t want you involved in any of this — you or Daniel. | want all of this gone,


    dead, dusted. | don’t want you to know any of this because the more you get caught up in it, the dirtier you’re going to get, and


    therger chance there is of you getting hurt. Or...kidnapped. Or fucking arrested, Fay.”


    | blink in surprise. | never, ever considered that any of my connections to this could be...illegal. | mean. | haven''t done anything


    wrong.


    Have |?


    “Kent, I’m already involved in this,” | remind him softly. “I was born into this.”


    “You were free of it,” he grumbles. “Your mom made sure of that. I’m the asshole who roped you back in.”


    | bite my lip, realizing that’s true, but | shake my head anyway. “I don’t want out, Kent,” | say softly. “Not if it means...leaving.”


    Leaving you, | finish in my head. But I’m not ready to say it yet.


    “And | don’t want you to go,” he sighs, turning fully to me now so that we''re face-to-face, just inches apart on the mattress. “So,


    would you please just let me keep you out of it, Fay? It’s not — it’s not at all that | don’t trust you. I’m just — trying to end this, and


    it''s easier to do that if you and Daniel aren’t involved.”


    “What do you mean?” | ask, unable to stop myself from reaching out a hand andying it against his cheek. Kent turns his face


    into my touch, pressing into my palm. “What are you trying to end?”


    “All of this, Fay,” he sighs, his body rxing into the mattress now, almost as if his secrets were a weight on him. “I want...out of


    the world of crime. Completely. | want to go legit.”


    “Really?” | ask, shocked. “Wh-why?”


    “Are you so disappointed, Fay?” he murmurs, and | can hear the smirk in his voice. “Are you only attracted to me if there’s a hint


    of danger to it?”


    “No,” | reply,ughing a little. “I just... never thought of you outside of it. Why do you want this?”


    “I''ve wanted it since | was old enough to want,” he replies, his words distanced and thoughtful now. “Ever since | saw my father


    being murdered.”


    | go cold as | remember Kent telling


    me that story, about watching hi


    father bleed to. degih barre hifr in a


    beptndd Ait. He had only been a


    child, and then was almost


    immediately sent away to Italy.


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    “| owed — we owed — the Bianci’s


    everything in exchange for what they


    did for me,” he continues. “And | gaye


    it all to them — ggyedhisn fe


    pusineseany the connections that


    they wanted when | came back to


    America, made them more money


    than they''ve ever had, gave them a


    grandson to inherit it all, gave them


    my god damn heart when | married


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    | go still a little when | hear him mention her, when he finishes his words angrily through clenched teeth.


    Because | have to admit — on a night


    when | think Kent migh be leavinigh |


    ivi thelegypersonY Wanit to think


    a Li is the woman | can never live


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