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Refocusing on Novo, he said, "I would rather be in a hovel with you than a castle with anybody else"

As she looked up at him, her smile was so resplendent, he basked in it for a er

"And as for your pesky neighbors, I have the solution for that" Leaning to one side, he took a folded piece of paper out of his pocket "I’ll just put this on the door"

Flattening the sheet, he turned it around so she could see the note Dr Manello had written and put on the door to her hospital roo

"Oh…" she said as she touched it "You were going to take this with you"

"I’m a sap For you, that is" He s to cave and coh I’ave her his sauciest wink "I love a challenge, what can I say"

They h his own "Let’s unload the sofa and blow this Popsicle stand"

"Sounds like a perfect plan"

They were halfway across the foyer when Novo said, "Hey, will you go as …whatever it is"

Peyton stopped and thought about it "Yeah, but on one condition"

"What’s that?"

"I get to hit hiht in the piehole" As Novo rolled her eyes and started shaking her head, he put his hands up "One shot I prouy, I’ll do it after the pictures are taken Cootta take care of you"

"I can take care of myself," she said sternly

"True But you have to admit, you’d like to see that Admit it Come onnnnnnnnnn"

"Fine," sheto hit him…"

"Even a little?" he asked as they headed out into the cold "How about I duct-tape his ass cheeks together? Short-sheet his bed? Ex-Lax his chocolate pudding…? I have other ideas, you know…"

Novo put her hands on her hips and tried to keep a straight face In the end, she cracked and started laughing "You are out of control"

He caer I knohat I want and where I want to be And it is to be with you You’re my home just like I’m yours"

She wrapped her arms around his neck "Do we have to unpack the truck before we have sex?"

"Fuck that shit" He grinned "Actually, I was planning on pulling over and doing you in the front seat on the way across town"

"I like the way you think," she said as she kissed hireat plans…"

It elve ht on the dot when Saxton dematerialized to the rear of the Audience House He did not enter through the kitchen door Instead, he turned around and faced the four-bay garage that was set back from the mansion The Brotherhood’s blacked-out van was parked there, and with a calm that would have shocked hih the snow to the set of exterior stairs leading to the structure’s second level As he ascended, his breathing was as even as ain spite of the cold

From what felt like a vast distance, he watched as his hand reached out and turned a knob Pushing the way open, he stepped inside, into the dis that were in theiron their feet, all with their hands tied behind their backs and their terrorin the heat Two he recognized from the attack behind the restaurant The other was not one he had seen before, but the felloas of predictable ilk: big, beefy, short-haired, and ruddy-faced

Vishous held one Blay and Qhuinn the others