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He chuckled, "I’ll tell the cos and soiven back The boe and erode the remains"

I frowned, "And that doesn’t say set-up to you?"

He shook his head, "We had eyes on them They were in the car This isn’t Mission Impossible, Evie"

I let the words all sink in and shook my head, "I don’t knohy, but her possible death hurts more than his"

"Bros before hos"

I frowned as tears streamed down my cheeks, "What?"

He looked confused, "You know that old saying ‘bros before hos’? She was your bro and Jahed, "OhI was a teenager when Snoop Dog made that up Jesus"

He chuckled and stood up, "I knoho Snoop Dog is Jeesh, I told you I’er in your heart, even if it didn’t feel like it, ‘cause she was your friend, not your lover She was never blinded by love; she just wanted to be your friend Are you going to be okay?"

I nodded and wiped ain It was a lie, I didn’t think I would ever be okay He walked to the bedroom door, it was then that it dawned oninback at me I didn’t know him and I didn’t like to cry in front of people I did know I cleared uess we meet with Servario tomorrow then?"

He nodded, "We think so Our intel on his o on He’s been playing us for a while That laas our first real break We traced your deeds and paperwork back to hih about a dozen other lawyers and a bunch of fake co you to Melanie, and the one of him and Servario, and the papere have fro you to all this Upstairs feels like it’s enough to bring you back in"

I shook my head, "I can’t believe, they would sell me down the river for so little What the fuck is this Burrow?"

He shrugged, "No clue, but Servario froze everything so he could control you andcan’t be that little, if the governe ar"

I bitin blind"

He nodded again, "I know We ot was one we could control, if you press 9-1-1, we can get to you Servario may call, he may show up, we don’t actually know"

"Useful!" I rolledrisked out like this Do I know about him and James and about The Burrow?"

He shook his head, "No Play dumb for now"

My stoer? Should I get a gun?"

He laughed, "No When was the last ti tio Will you be there?"

He s"

I nodded and tried ignore the super-creepy feeling I got from the comment, "Okay… Just turn my cell phone and house phones back on…okay? I need to be able to reach my kids if I’m out and they need to be able to call out, if there’s an eht, Evie" He left and closed the door I didn’t go to sleep I waited for hione Then I got up and started to debug et to be ain

Chapter Four - Goodbyes aren’t nearly as bad, when you hate the deceased

To say I was pissed would be a HUGE understateame of baseball or hockey

James’ service was lovely, but I couldn’t cry--not even for ed and kissedme how much he loved his children and o on about the flower arrangeood to us, for one ured I would kill sotothe shitshow James had left me, over with

I wanted to be sick I wanted to spoil the sweet, knight-in-shining-ared to e my best friend and the PTA bitches I only knew he’d fucked two in the group of the about the funeral, all crying They susting