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Chapter One

Blake Stone

I need a fucking drink

That’s the only thought in my head as I break down the last of my computer equipaudy lights of the Las Vegas strip As soon as Ito go find myself a drink I don’t care how early it is John, our ainst it and after the last couple of days, I totally deserve whatever top-shelf libation this place has to offer If it’s anything like the top guy’s private supply, it’s bound to be good

The horror I felt when I saw Faye e, the sound of devastation that was ripped from Travis’ throat when she finally made it to the rooftop, only to be captured by that son-of-a-bitch, is burned into my brain I don’t think I’ll ever be able to shake it Even now, knowing she’s safe and sound with hied for the I need a drink, so to eat and some uninterrupted sleep

In that order

Trav and I have been through a lot together over the years I ht after the foster faraduated and my most recent foster faet paid to keep me that I needed to find another place to stay, so I found ned up It was more than blind luck that assured we ended up as part of the same team, and our time overseas cemented our bond

Our brotherhood

We both dated Went hoirls wefor either of us to realize that anted so weren’t the type that youbeen alone for ed for fa, soood tiht or two I suspect that for Travis, his heart knew that Faye was his future long before she was old enough for hi, Faye was his constant, as funny as that sounds It wasn’t sexual or anything, it’s just that she was always in the front of hisfor a letter fro to find her He didn’t have time for anyone else

It’s different forme away fro every woman I’ve dated Ever Maybe that sounds shitty I uys in their late twenties who are single and not bad looking can say that they just aren’t interested in the women that they meet? Any of them…

So for an ideal that doesn’t even exist Call me a romantic, but is it too much to ask to find a woman who isn’t just beautiful, but one who has substance as well? Soenerous where they can be… like I said, someone out of the made-for-TV movies they play around the holidays Women like that don’t exist in real life At least that’s what I thought before Itheht that co for a unicorn! Now I know that fucking unicorns are real, and I’m determined to find my own

I just don’t kno so one Travis knew Faye for years and didn’t realize she was his until he found her again I don’t know all of Xavier’s story, but it sounds like Ana was in the picture long before she became his wife I don’t have anyone like that intheir other half It’s not so froure it out

Hauling h the door I look around The sh Not as nice as reat view of the city and the desert beyond it We won’t be here forever, so it’ll do I’eneral Years of foster care spent in trailer parks, followed by the less than luxurious digs theI did when Travis and I decided