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"Oh yeah?" She began to slide her hand south "Maybe--"

The doorbell chiroan of anticipation

He scohen she looked up "Ignore it It’s probably Nikita’s hench ‘due consideration’ to her offer"

"As if you’ll make any decision but the one you want" She pushed hio away until you do"

A black look on his face, Max got up and pulled on his jeans, the tattoo on his back stunning And, Sophia thought, it wasn’t only because he’d had her name written on the blade "I love you, Cop"

He turned to nip at her lower lip "Good ’cause you’ve got life with no possibility whatsoever of parole" Then, barefoot and with sleep-tumbled hair, he walked out She knew he’d done it on purpose--to irritate any assistants Nikita had sent

Getting out herself, she pulled on a thick terrycloth robe and began to brush her hair "Shall we go see who it is?" she asked Morpheus, as snaking around her ankles

As if he understood, he padded over, with her following

Her hand stopped in ripped the doorjaet past security?" It was the first question that ca he cared about

The blond man in the corridor clasped the wrist of one hand with the other "I told them who I was at the desk, and they said I was on the list SoI" He sed "Did you know? I rabbed his younger brother in a bone-crushing e idiot If you try to run off this ti your ass in jail"

River’s arainst his skin, had to blink his own eyes, s the knot in his throat Raising a hand after a long, long time, he messed up the hair on the back of River’s head "Where have you been, kid?"

River gave a sheepish grin as they drew apart "Getting ether"

"You couldn’t do that without disappearing?"

River dropped his head, shoving his hands into the back pockets of his jeans ItHe knew this entle voice "Are you going to invite hiate him on the doorstep?"