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we both win.”

Talon slammed the door and walked to the front of the SUV.

He pulled his hood back up and just kept going.

The headlights of Tank Two shined on Talon.

I opened my door and jumped out.

“What can you do for me?” I called out.

Talon stopped walking.

He didn’t move or make a sound.

I left the door open and started to approach him.

My muscles felt gooey. My heart was beyond racing. It was jumping around inside my chest.

I had the chance to get away from Talon, but now I was closing in on him.

When I was close enough, I touched his arm.

“Talon…”

He spun around and moved fast.

His hands touched my face.

I gasped.

His thumbs stroked my cheeks.

My lips quivered.

It was like he…

“Are you going to kiss me?” I whispered.

“Me, kiss a Bump?” Talon asked with a grin. “I’d rather kiss Mickey than kiss you, darling.”

I pulled his hands away from my face.

I opened my mouth but Talon cut me off.

“Are you ready to talk for real now?”

I took a deep breath.

And I nodded.

We were back in Tank Two.

“This is nice,” Talon said. “Really nice in here. I like the backseat.”

“You would.”

“I am a guy. What do you think we think about?”

I rolled my eyes at him. “But I’m a Bump.”

“Oh, I don’t want to fuck you back there. I have other names in mind.”

“Good to know.”

“So let’s talk.”

I took a deep breath.

If I was going to do this…

“They fucked with my SUV,” I said. “They caused the accident. They wanted to kill me. Well, they tried to kill me.”

“Shit,” Talon said. “Really?”

I nodded. “I’m not exactly sure why, but I really don’t care. They were at Xavier’s shop the one night talking about me. And then next thing I knew, I was driving home and I had no steering and no brakes. I tried to get into the back of Tank but it was-”

“Tank?” Talon asked.

“I named my SUV Tank.”

“What a Bump thing to do,” Talon said.

“Fuck off,” I said.

“What’s the name of this one?”

I sighed. “Tank Two.”

“Fuck, you couldn’t think of something more original?” Talon asked with that grin on his face.

I smiled back at him. “Fuck off, Talon. I didn’t take a lot of time on the decision, okay?”

“That’s surprising,” he said. “You Bumps will spend days picking out what color lipstick you want.”

“So is that what this is going to be?” I asked. “You just bashing the shit out of the Bumps? I mean, I can do the same for you. You fucking dirty, poor, loser of a Troc. You don’t even have a car, do you? When was the last time you changed your clothes? I wonder what it’s like to not know where your next meal is coming from. How sad.”

Talon set his sights on me and my mouth went bone dry.

I went too far…

“If you ever say something like that to me again, Winter, I’ll finish what they started,” he whispered. “And I know how to do it right. Got it?”

I shivered even though the heat in the SUV was intense.

“Fine,” I said.

Talon looked forward. “Back to your story. You heard those motherfuckers talking and then you got all fucked up, right?”

“Yeah,” I said. “I woke up in the hospital and couldn’t remember a thing. I didn’t even know my own father. That was scary.”

“When did you remember, darling?” Talon asked.

I hesitated.

I couldn’t believe I was doing this.

Sitting in my SUV with Talon.

With a fucking Troc.

I swallowed hard.

Talon reached across the seat and touched my hand. “You’re in bed with the devil now, Winter. No turning back from here.”

“You sure about that?” I asked.

“I know your most important secret,” he said. “It can make or break you. Your life is at stake. Now’s not the time to get quiet on me.”

I swallowed hard.

Would Talon tell Noah, Easton, and Xavier that I remembered everything, putting my life in danger?

He was a Troc.

So the answer was simple.

Yes.

Chapter 11

home to pay

“Tell me when you remembered,” Talon said.

I curled my lip. I turned a little and leaned against the driver’s side door.

“The second I saw the three of them standing in the hospital room,” I said.

“They came to visit,” Talon said. “That’s brutal.”

“Yeah.”

“And what led up to all of this bullshit?”

I shrugged my shoulders. “It’s Noah, Easton, and Xavier. Do they ever need a reason for what they do?”

“Good point,” Talon said. He rubbed his jaw. “So you remembered and then just decided to keep it to yourself. That’s a bold move, Winter. That’s exactly why I’m sitting here. It’s why