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But he'd never wanted to change that about himself. Ever. And for the first time in his life, he was happy he ha

achieving that through fair or foul means if he had to. He'd hired the services of one of the best private investigators the country had to offer. T

uch security. The guy probably thought he didn't have enemies, Chris thought with a chuckle. Well, with his reputation for doing only genuine

uld slide up for Shane to drive in, and then would come back down immediately the car went through. Chris wasn't worried about how long the gate was going to take to come down because he planned on rolling in right behind Shane'

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hat day, he'd let his side down because his head hadn't been in the game. Shane had made silly misses that had surprised his boys because that was so not like him. He'd had to apologize to the guys

thought about the guy and that pissed Shane off to no end. Even on the basketball court, thoughts of Chris had intruded because Shane couldn't help but think of a

e'd just hit the showers and gotten into his car, lying to the guys that he had an appointment elsewhere. Thanks to Chris-fucking-Donovan, he couldn't even bring himself to

'd been preoccupied. He couldn't help but accept the fact that he was falling apart and he had no one other than Chris to blame for that. Shane was so angry he failed to notice the unfamiliar car parked just around his house. Thou

ee an image of Chris behind his car. Shane was positive he was hallucinating because there was no way Chris could have gotten inside his garage witho

n inner compartment. Then he reached for the pistol in there. The head of his security had insisted on hiding a pistol in each of his cars because Shane had ins

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as obvious that something was bothering Shane and Chris hoped, with all his heart, that he wasn't the reason for whatever Shane was going through. He decided to

pistol. Chris would be a liar if he said he didn't get scared when he saw the gun pointed at him. Who wouldn't get scared if so

was the look of a broken man. And as he looked at Chris, Shane began to breathe

felt goosebumps break out on his ski

catch on the gun being released. The sound was pretty loud in the quiet garage. Chris knew Shane could kill him in an instant but he didn't really care if Shane

close to Shane their bodies were almost touching, Chris slowly reached up and took hold of the hand holding the gun. Then C