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ink you might want to run the race with us?" Banks shakes his head. "If it's all the same to you, while you guys work out, I'll get in the truck and run to Newsome. I need a haircut. And I like working out alone, not with a bunch of women at the gym to distract me. I'm going to run the race, but I'm not doing all the social shit." When Ace stops in front of the gym, we all jump and Ace hands over his keys. "Right?" Banks responds by getting into the truck and leaves without saying anything else. "What's up with him lately?" Ace asks, watching the truck practically pull out of the parking lot. He's acting even worse than he normally does. 1 What am I saying, since Banks didn't have PTSD from when we were kids, but he also picked up some pretty nasty scars from when we were in the army. "I don't know, but I intend to find out," I reply. "I just have to get him in the right frame of mind to talk." Ace snorts. "Then it will be during the day." It will, in fact. It has to be during the day, because there's no way to talk to him at night. His nightmares always seem to get worse when the sun goes down. "I'll talk to him tomorrow," I say. "But I have to do it after talking to Darby." "Darby?" Ace asks as he walks towards the front door, his training bag over his shoulder. "Darby." Sigh. Darby is our little brother, and the biggest pain in the ass on the planet. 1 Post-traumatic stress disorder. Well, he used to be. He's getting better, slowly but surely. I wouldn't have thought the same of him a few years ago, though. When he was younger, Darby had gone deep into shit. He hung around some nasty people, and those nasty people took him down a dark path that nearly landed his ass in jail when he assaulted a police officer. This same police officer being the love interest of our older sister, Georgia. Well, so did the old love interest, seeing as they had been in love since they were little. There were many ways Nico could deal with Darby, but in the end, he straightened him out instead of sending him to jail. For which we are all grateful. But he a