Page 192 of Renard's Deliverance

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“I’m going in there,”Renard stated. “They can’t keep me from her.” He jumped to his feet and started to storm out of Jake’s office.

Jake got between him and the door while Saxon grabbed him, hauling him back.

“You can’t!” Saxon told him.

“Let me go!” he yelled. “She’s mine! My responsibility. I am her guardian and they can’t question her without me.”

“Do you think she can’t hear you?” Saxon said quietly. “No doubt when that door opens, she can hear you yell, and you are fucking well making things harder for her.”

“I should be in there protecting her, though.”

“Sometimes, protecting her means letting other people help,” Saxon told him. “It means, stepping back and taking a breath and just trusting that others have her back. And yours.”

“And after she’s released, the last thing she’ll want to do is bail you out of jail,” Alec told him from where he was leaning against the wall, tapping on his phone.

“And what if she’s not released?” he asked.

“She will be,” Alec said firmly.

“How can you be so sure?” Renard asked.

“Because she’s one of mine. And Malones don’t go to jail.”

Jake started to swear and walked out of the room.

“Poor Jake. Hard to be the sheriff of Haven,” Alec said.

“What did you do?” Saxon asked, moving back to his seat.

Renard was too wired up to sit, so he paced back and forth.

“I called Jardin. Jardin called Regent.”

“Regent’s helping?” Saxon asked.

“Of course,” Alec said. “Also, he doesn’t like Grey Lindon much and he really didn’t like his son. He met him a few times, said he was evil. And he’s not letting one of us go down for taking out someone like that.”

“If she did it,” Saxon said.

“Right,” Alec added. “But it doesn’t matter if she did or not. She’s not going to jail.”

“Regent is going to make it so she’s safe?” Renard reiterated, unsure if he was hearing right.

“Yep,” Alec replied. “So just hold tight and let him do what he needs to do.”

“I fucking hate feeling useless,” Renard said.

“We all do, man. But sometimes you have to let other people help you,” Saxon said.

He hated that too.

But the last time he’d let someone help him; he’d ended up here in Haven. And it had saved his life. So he was going to trust again and hope like fuck that Regent Malone came through.

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“Fuck,”Eli Jones said, closing his eyes and pinching the top of his nose.

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