The Waitress Slid Me A Crumpled Receipt With Three Words That Turned My Blood To Ice.
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Chapter 6
Pandemonium.
Uniforms poured in. Shouts. Orders. Hands raised.
My brother tried to slip away. Two officers caught him by the door.
My friend and captain stood frozen, guns visible, staring at the handcuffs closing around their wrists.
I stood with the waitress by the back wall. Safe.
She looked at me, breathless.
"I called them before I came to get you," she said. "Just in case."
I looked at the three men being led out.
My brother paused at the door. Looked back at me. His face twisted with rage.
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"You chose a stranger over family," he spat.
"No," I said quietly. "They chose betrayal over blood."
