Beneath the Shadows
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"I-I just never knew how to impress him..."
He just sat there, crying on her shoulder. It took everything in him not to bust out laughing. God knows he couldn't stand the sight of him. That man used to always say Jason was the weakest of them.
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Brooke as one would say isn't 'where she should be'. She's got her own game, so she's not at all worried what 'they' say. Although, she could be a lot better, as her late mom would put it. She runs the street of L.A. doing just about everything, weapons, drugs, even underground fighting. Word spreads quick in that area, so she doesn't have a lot of enemies, there's no time for that. As far as life goes, everything is fine 'as it should be'. But when a powerful force is seeking to take her out, will the plan succeeded, or will she finally have to worry about someone after her?
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