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couldn't stop him.  They all were going to find out sooner or later.
    Ryan just stared at me.  This is the second time that my little brother ever challenged me; both times have been connected to Tonya.  The first was the two weeks after her and I broke up.  "So where is your better half?" he asked me with a smile. "Did she finally wise up and leave your sorry ass?”  He said laughing but I didn't.  He and I argued into the wee hours of the night because of her.  A yelling match with my brother had left me exhausted and furious.  He was right. Beg, crawl, and then beg some more to get her back.
    Pushing his blonde hair back, he said, "Were you going to tell us?  I mean, she was good to us too." 
    I wasn't in the mood to go to war with my brother. "She's upstairs. Don't press her." 
    Ryan was taking the stairs two by two.
    "Who was she to you, Vic?  I know that Ryan and Drew don't get too excited on a chick."  Melissa's face showed disappointment.
    "Wait here."  I went up the stairs and saw my other half of my crew gathered around her.  Drew held her in his arms.  She smiled softly into the crook of her neck, Ryan rubbing her back.  I should be the one consoling her.
    I stood in the door, the three unaware of me being there.  I felt like a stranger in my own house watching exchange between the people that I love. It seemed cruel. I was left out. I deserved this.
    "We will catch him; Vic has Mel are working on it right now.  Don't worry, baby solider," Ryan said.
    She turned to him and grabbed his large hand.  "This is DC. Whoever did this is probably in the wind by now.  I just want to get myself together and move on.  But thank you guys."
    "Don't just stand there asshole go to her."  Mel had crept up behind.  "Go to her."  She gave me a shove in my back.  My stumbling drew the attention to the occupants in the room.  Both men snarled. Tonya eased herself off of Drew’s lap and sat on the bed with her feet dangling off the side.
    "Get some rest darling. We’ll be checking on you."  Drew kissed her forehead and they walked out the room pass me.
    "Downstairs. NOW!"  Ryan growled.
    Gathered around my kitchen table were the people that I went to war with.  Drew and I worked with the Secret Service together.  Mel and Ryan worked together in a black ops thing a few years ago and now we formed a legal, but not so by the book team of mercenaries.  I would die for them and they would for me.
    Drew parked his big ass on my kitchen island.  "What happened to her?"  He did not want to look at me.
    Mel went back to her seat in front of her computer screen. Ryan was circling the kitchen like a big cat ready to pounce.
    "I was going to tell you, but I wanted to get some things in motion before I called you.  You know that I would never hide this from you."  I had gotten defensive. I was going crazy.
    "What do you got?"  Drew said turning to Mel.
    "Nothing, she's clean.  Nothing at all. She’s a good one," she said still battling confusion.
    "Her face man. Nobody just beats a woman up and leaves her in a field.  Was she robbed?"  Drew said giving me a mean stare.
    "No."
    "Victor, I swear to God, if you don't tell us everything that happened.  We--" Ryan looked everyone else in the face.  "--will hurt you."
    I knew saying everything that happened to her would hurt her all over again.  I figured that I would pick the right time.  "From what I got from the doctor and the cops was she left the school, stop to get groceries, and a man came up from behind.  Beat her and dumped her on field at the school."  I hated lying to them.
    Ryan gave me a long hard look.  "So she wasn't robbed?"
    "No, her car is still at the grocery store.  Mel and Drew could you pick it up?"  They both nodded.  "Ryan and I have to have a conversation."
    The two left without a word. I was sure that Drew would tell Mel everything about the relationship that Tonya and I once shared. 
    "What?  I know there's more to it.