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Her indifference had shocked hied him; but the manner in which her voice quavered over the please struck hi mace to the side of the head

He looked into her eyes, as wounded by her fear as her deception "Did it trulyto you?"

"Maybe it started out that way," she said slowly, "but when I woke up and saw you sleeping next to me, and remembered… I didn’t knoould feel like that" Her shoulders rounded, and she stared at the floor "I didn’t even think about you, not really I got dressed as fast as I could, and I ran"

"You can’t regret being with h his fingers and looked all over her face "Not hoere together" When she didn’t reply, he put his arainst him "Chris"

"No No, I don’t" She spoke as if she were ashamed of that fact Then her expression cleared, and she touched his cheek "You were better than any fantasy I’ve ever had"

Robin’s confusion doubled "If that is true, why did you run away?"

"Haven’t you ever done so," she asked, "that you later wished you’d never done at all? Because you know it could change everything you have, everything you are?"

"So you ran away because you wanted h "Yes, actually, I have done that ainst hiainst the top of her head "I believe this is where my severely bruised pride takes a tumble"

"It’s not you It’s me My life My choices" Chris tilted her head back and kissed his cheek "I aht we spent together"

Now she thought he was being understanding Accepting Happy to slink off into the night and leave her to her sting operations and undercover work But at least he had the co sex with hiht, it would be a miracle

"Before you sendyour life as it was, there is so else I want you to remember" He put his hands around her waist, lifted her off her feet, and brought her mouth to his

Chris tried to push him off for all of five seconds before her hands shifted and wound around his neck and her lips parted for his tongue

Robin groaned She ht look like a posh barrister, his Chris, but she kissed like a Persian courtesan As she had last night, she ed and caressed her tongue stroked and tasted

His anger had not vanished, and Chris’s generous response added resentment to the ire he felt He kne to use finesse with a feht forth the brute in hio passive, however Shehis lip between the edge of her teeth or stroking his face with her fingers, petting him, as if she meant to dare hi softly yielding hu tothis one drove Robin wild No one had ever made him feel this, and he would not let it end To hell with the manuscript, the FBI, humanity, the Kyn, and the rest of the bloody world She would not dismiss him from her life He would find a way to win her heart

"Wait" She gasped the word between ferocious kisses "Fire"

He found he had to literally wrench his ing sound in his brain "What?"

"Alarering a little as she went around hiet out of the office, not until Robin reached past her and jerked the door open As soon as he did, she heardscreech of the fire alar fro, but she saw no flames or smoke in the air

As she cae of jagged glass Inside, three people huddled on the floor, their clothes covered hat looked like white flour Their teeth chattered as they held on to each other and called for help All around the gallery the guests were caught in a dozen other identical cages

"Hold on We’ll get you out" Chris grabbed the bars, and the cold, slick bars stung her palms She pulled her hands away and stared at the water on thelass, but ice

Robin looked up "It’s the water froht "The spray has been frozen"

Chris saw a thick colue attached to theThe frozen carpet crunched as she walked around it, and she saw a thick layer of ice crystals covering alallery