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"No. I meanourcar. We paid for it, remember?"
I didn't want to quibble. "So, what'd Jaden dothen?"
"What do you think? He torches it."
"In the warehouse? Isn't that dangerous?"
"Hell yeah, it's dangerous. He almost took out the Bentleyand a few other cars, too. They were parked in the same section,withfull tanks of gas."
I shuddered to think. "And what about the warehouse?"
"It's got a sprinkler system – a good thing, too, since I'd blown the extinguisher on Cooper. Anyway, the water comes pouring down, dousing all of us, and the car, too."
"You mean the five-hundred dollar one?"
"That's the one."
"So what happened then?"
"So, we've got this mess to clean up, and Jake, I draghisass to the doctor for stitches."
I almost didn't know what to say. I mumbled, "Well, that was nice of you."
"It wasn't 'nice,'" Jax said. "Mostly, I didn’t want his wife to give me grief."
That made me pause. "He's married? Seriously?"
"Hard to believe, huh?"
"Uh, yeah. His wife – do you know her well?"
"No."
"So when's the last time you saw her?"
"A few weeks ago, when she stopped by the house."
"With Jake?"
"No. With the other wives."
"You mean your brothers' wives?"
Jax nodded. "They've got this crazy idea that we should all make up, be a regular family." He gave a low scoff. "Like that's gonna happen."
I gave a nervous laugh. "Well, it definitely won't happen if you go around biting each other."
"Hey,weweren't the ones who did the biting, remember?"
I gave him a look. "What about torching each other's cars?"
He paused. "Well, there is that."
I was still trying to process everything I'd just heard. "Sothat'swhy you were so late getting back? To the party, I mean?"
"That's the reason."
"Have you guys talked since?"
