He gulped, and Dakota thought perhaps he might be trembling a little. “I-I dunno if I want that. To become that comfortable with it. I don’t think I want that at all.”
Dakota let out a light sigh. As irritating and potentially troublesome for their arrangement as his response was, how could he really blame him? The best thing that ever happened to Gage was the moment he went from not feeling anything on heroin to having a real, emotion-filled life. He was a good person, doing the best he could in the scenario that was handed to him. Even this assignment as Dakota’s right-hand man wasn’t his call. It was Adelaide’s. He just did as his mentor asked, and along the way, he tried to make the best of it.
“Well, I can’t promise anything, okay? But, uh, I’ll try to make it so when we go after a
