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Hell Nothing orking out as it should

Fury surged through hi studio apartment with cheap furniture The place didn’t even have a real bedroo with hi around the roorocery sack: a CD player and CDs, loose cash, the few pieces of jewelry frolar had broken in

He glanced at the door and s as breaking bones, of course, but that ti an apartment in the back of the complex

If only he had time to deal with her now But her punishment would take a while, and he had to be in court early tomorrow, Wednesday After that, if he worked late and put in soe to cover his cases for a few days

He tucked his notepad into a pocket He’d gone through her files, taken down infored to escape hiain quickly

And once he finished with her this tiain

Beth unlocked the gate in the eight-foot fence at the back of the Shadowlands and entered Z’s private gardens Thunder rurass rustled in the stiffening breeze She was running late, but just had to pause and enjoy the sight before her

Over the past couple of e yard The previously for into casual, even a bit wild With a contractor’s help, she’d given the swi pool area the appearance of a tropical pond where water gurgled through a faux rocky streaardens carved the big yard into sht, a Jacuzzi roo sun, the breakfast nook held a sht iron chairs In the conte blue flowers

Now looking at her work, she felt pride rising in her She’d never had so ht in such a short tioing to stand there and admire your work all day?"

With a small screa, she looked up to see Jessica leaning over the third-story balcony

"Next ti reen tank top, Jessica trotted down the steps "I saw you fro" As Beth entered the covered, screened lanai, the blonde handed over an ice-cold Coke "Take a break for alate" Beth opened the can and took a big gulp "I swung byto eat and found someone had kicked my door in"

"Jeez, are you serious?"

"S" And terrified her so badly she’d almost abandoned all she’d built and fled But the couple next door had seen her and ca over They walked into her aparts had been pilfered…her CD player and lary, and hoeird was that to be relieved a burglar had been in her place?

After cal down, she had realized Kyler couldn’t knohere she was, and if he did, he’d do worse than just kick in her door "At least I didn’t have lar was probably really disappointed"

"That’s still scary Is the door fixed?"

Beth felt anxiety curl in her sto last week, so the et anyone over to repair it till to to fix what I can And I’ll put a chair under the knob tonight"

"I don’t like the sound of that"

"Best I can do But that’s why I’ here, and why I don’t have tilanced around casually After reement with Z, she’d planned to come early and leave before he arrived And now she was late, and his truck sat in the parking lot Knowing he was upstairswith him yesterday a little too

Now she knew; she couldn’t afford to get involved with him She would have to keep their interactions casual and only for sex At the club

"It looks like you get a break whether you want one or not," Jessica said as the first drops of rain splattered on the wide leaves of the nearby pagoda plant The blonde dropped into a chair at the wrought-iron-and-oak table and shoved a chair out for Beth "Might as well sit till the storm passes"