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his body toward me. His eyes were black,
drained with any type of positive emotion.
    What was I thinking? What did he think
I was thinking? I cared about him! “I was thinking that you wouldn’t tell me
anything about what was going on! I was thinking that I care about you.
Cutter!”
    He sighed. “I appreciate that you care
about me, Grace, but you can’t be here. You aren’t even supposed to be out of
the room, let alone coming along to a committee meeting.”
    “You keep putting yourself in
dangerous situations, Grace.” Blaze added. “You want to be a part of this life?
You have to play by the rules we lay out for you.”
    Who the fuck was Blaze to tell me what
kind of rules I did or didn’t have to follow? I looked at Cutter for help but
he was just nodding like Blaze had a point.
    Maybe he did, but I didn’t care.
    And I definitely didn’t want to hear
it.
    “Fine, you’re right. I’m just a big
idiot who doesn’t know right from wrong.” I swung open the back door. “Since
I’m such a little girl who can’t handle the rules I guess I shouldn’t be here
at all!” I jumped out of the car and slammed the door shut behind me.
    I took off down the road on foot.
    “Good job on deciding to keep her,” I
heard Blaze remind him smugly.
    The driver side door swung open and I
heard Cutter’s boots behind me, he caught up easily. “Grace.” He grabbed me by
the arm and swung my body around, stopping me from going any further. “You
can’t be doing stuff like this, especially not right now.”
    We were halfway into the middle of the
road and cars started swerving off to the left in order to pass by without
hitting us but I didn’t even care, all I cared about was Cutter.
    “What was I supposed to do? Sit back
in that room and worry about you all damn night, Cutter? And
the night after that, too? I don’t want you to do all of this for me!”
    “You don’t have a choice, Grace!”
Cutter moved closer to me. “What the hell would I have done if we were going to
meet someone dangerous? Someone who wouldn’t hesitate to kill you just to get
to me! None of this is up to you, I’m a big boy and I make my own choices.”
    I looked down at the ground. I hated
feeling this way. “I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t have followed you. I was just
so worried. I didn’t… I don’t know what I would do if anything happened to
you.”
    “You don’t have to be sorry, Grace.”
He shrugged. “The truth is that I’m not used to having someone worry about me
like this, it’s always just been me and my brothers. But if you want to be with
me, and I think you do, then you need to accept that most of the shit that goes
on with me you have no say in. And it might annoy you
that I’m so overbearing but that’s the way you have to be in my life, it’s the
only way to keep people safe.”
    A guy slammed on his breaks in the
middle of the road and honked his horn loudly. “GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE
DAMN ROAD!” He inched his car a little closer to us.
    “I know,” I told him. “This is all
just so new to me.”
    “This kind of thing can’t happen
again. You need to control yourself.”
    The guy swung his door open now.
“HELLO! I SAID MOVE IT! YOU’RE HOLDING UP TRAFFIC HERE!” He was halfway out of
his car, looking at us like we had lost our minds.
    I felt like he was always telling me
that the things I was doing couldn’t happen, that I needed to control myself. I
thought that I was but apparently I was doing a pretty shitty job.
    “Promise me,” Cutter told me. “Promise
me you’ll listen to me from now on when I tell you to stay some place, it’s not
your job to save me or to keep me out of danger.”
    “It’s not your job to do that for me,
either!”
    He shook his head, annoyed. “It’s
different.”
    “It’s not.”
    “Promise me, Grace.”
    “HEY!” The guy screamed, getting out
of the car fully. “TAKE YOUR BITCH AND GET HER OUT OF THE DAMN ROAD! SOME OF US
ARE TRYING TO GET