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LESTER POV

I glanced at the sleeping beauty laying in the bed and sighed as I made my way out of the room. My brain was still trying to figure out this mess, who and why had they done this to Beautiful? I mean, nobody knows wat happened in the house, we were totally left out in the blue. I avoided the chairs and tables as I tried to decide how far away I should go. I didn't want to go outside as that might startle her and I didn't want to do that again. I sat down on the ottoman beside the couch that was turned over. I took a deep breath and picked up my phone.

"Yo." He said after only after a few seconds. His voice was tense and distress shone through. I could imagine my cousin pacing around the apartment, like I have seen him do so many times. Every time Steph went missing or was in any type of trouble he would pace around the apartment and the rest of us would just sit and wait for him to come up with a game plan. It had been like that since the military days, he had the highest ranking and he would figure the mess out.

"Yo." I answered and took a deep breath, he wouldn't like the news I brought. "She's terrified, tried to attack me with a bread knife not knowing who I was. Luckily, before she stabbed the heck out of me, I managed to talk her out of it and got her to recognize me. She's asking about her son."

The silence in phone almost suffocated me as I heard him sit down. Propably he would hold his head in his hands and shake it slightly. Again, something I have seen before.

"What should I do?" I asked him as the silence continued. I heard him sigh.

"Be with her tonight, I can't risk it escalating if I came there without warning. Try to talk to her, try to figure out what caused this and report back to me. We'll see later if she's able to see her son, it'd kill her to hurt him in any way so let's avoid that."

"Okay bossman. Try to get some sleep" I said fully aware that he would pace through the rest of the night and then head to the gym and spar the shit out of some poor bastard. Thank God I was here safe from Rangers aggressions, I've been to the mats more than anybody else in this building, including Tank.

I put down my phone and looked around the place. I had lived here the first year I was working here, they had only painted the walls in a lighter shade and replaced the furniture. I smiled and remembered the fun times we had had on that old couch. All the girls I had brought back here, and all the guys nights we shared. I remembered one night particulary well.

We sat on the worn down couch and watched the pregame. bobby, I and Tank sat on the couch quite comfortably as Ranger walked through the door. He had his working outfit on and kicked off his boots as he sat down in the chair beside the couch and took a beer. In one sip (?) he poured down the whole bottle down his throat and opened another.

"Rough day there, cuz?" I asked him and grinned. I loved to see my cousin totally frustrated and even though I knew I was pulling the tigers tail and I knew that he would be kicking my butt on the mats tomorrow I loved to piss him of and loose the almighty blank face, as beautiful so nicely put it.

"Leave it Santos!" He barked and closed his eyes. I only grinned harder cause I knew this time it would be epic.

"Oh dear Lord…" Bobby muttered and reached for another bear and sighed as if he had seen this one before. I guess that was true, this happened almost everyday. Tank just stared at the game, or so it would seem to an unexperienced watcher. I on the other hand saw that he was watching Ranger ready to save me from being pulverized by him.

"It's Beautiful, isn't it?" I asked him trying to keep my voice normal, not quite succeeding in it.

"I said leave it Santos!" he said through gritted teeth. I knew that he needed a little time so I kept shut for a few minutes and resisted the urge to do my happy dance when I heard him take a deep breath.

"It's babe." He said and took a sip of his bear. I grinned so hard it was starting to hurt as I looked at my cousin. I had seen his sexual pressure rising during these last weeks and I had heard that he had refused to see a lady friend, if you know what I mean? He had never been really serious about dating any of the woman he saw and he would always go to see one of these lady friends to release so pressure once in a while, but not this time. In fact not since the day he saw Beautiful. I knew they both fancied each other but they both had their heads up their asses so they couldn't see it as obvious as it seemed to everybody else.

"I went to see her today."

"And…? You had sex didn't you?" I said to him and watched him go tense. That was all the confirmation I needed. "Was it good?"

"Santos!" Tank said to me and hit my shoulder but I wasn't going to let this go. The game had started but nobody watched it, only looking at Ranger. He wasn't going to say anything we all knew that.

"So it was. Okay what seems to be the problem here?" I asked him and tried to figure out what was the problem.

"I realized something… afterwards."

We all kept quiet as he studied the glass bottle in his hand.

"I love her." He said out loud after a few minutes. "I love her very much."

"We all know that already, it's been obvious since the day you saw her."

"And then I did something I already regret." he whispered and looked pained. We all stopped and looked at him, this was no time for silly jokes anymore.

"You can tell us bossman." Bobby said and leaned over.

"I sent her back to the cop." He whispered and grabbed his head in his hands. We all just looked at each other like we've never seen each other. How? Why?

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