MikeLauri was still asleep after three hours of napping. When I’d gotten her home, she didn’t fight me as I picked her up and carried her to my bedroom. Once she was under the covers, she closed her eyes and fell right to sleep. When I took her dress off her, I’d seen the claw mark on her breast from where that bastard put his hands on her. I wanted to go back to campus and beat the f**k out of him again, but she’d stilled my hand and kissed it. She whispered a quiet thank you, and lay against the pillows. Sitting in my kitchen, I gripped a beer in my hand. Something was going on, something more than just a goddamn internship. Tony finally got some news for me. Pierre’s father, Daniel Leonard , owned a mechanic franchise that had taken on popularity in the suburbs. He wanted to bring a

