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"Haht?" Jonesy elaborated

We nodded

"Well," he tapped his head "I think I can sniff that out because it is newer technology so when it’s busted it’s like so musical note"

"A discordant ht about it, then slowly nodded

"Great," I said, beginning to hobble back to Jonesy’s borrowed o"

"Hold your shorts, Hart" He walked by e this time"

I stopped for a second then relented "Okay"

He looked surprised and then said, "Yeah, baby!"

Jonesy jogged off and I hobbled after hi it with the next mess

’Cuz there’d be one

CHAPTER 18

Parker

They dressed in the quiet shroud of snow, the circle of dry forest floor disappearing as the temperature dropped and a rare day of true winter moved in to stay

For once Parker was at a loss for what to do next

He did know that killing Nevaeh was no longer in the cards He’d killed for years, so had been justified and others had been his job

Caleb Hart had changed all that and Jeffrey’s personal hunger to make the Helix Co, but one he’d been coerced into when they’d killed his worthless fae Caleb hen Parker first raveyard

Yeah, Parker was reater His family had been terrible, true

Yet they’d been what he’d known The sweep of death had done nothing but cripple a psyche already da he’d received

HC intel gave credence to Nevaeh’s childhood being worse than his The fine scars that he’d caressed

Kissed

They told the history of her abuse Parker hadn’t needed to see any confirmation on her beautiful skin It was in her eyes When Nevaeh let down her guard, that heartbreaking vulnerability had been there, a mirror of his own

He saw himself in her and was inexplicably drawn to her

And he made the worst ht sight of in the ainst him from behind She didn’t have her shirt on and his warooseflesh to the surface of her pale skin "Quit it," she said "I’ to pull away, the war between the one hand against her throat, the other a caged band of warmth around her waist "Don’t you dare run, Nevaeh," Parker said in a fierce whisper, his large hands wandering the bare skin of her flat belly, dancing with exquisite slowness up ribs that were too proo," she said in a whisper, uncertainty threading her voice,her norainst her ear, wrapping his hand in the tangle of inky hair and gripping it so tightly it was almost painful He added, "I have found ive it up"

"No one’s ever connected that," she answered, laying her head against his shoulder, relaxing against his dominant hold Her voice and body told Parker she’d relented to the chemistry that roared like an unchecked fire between theel," Parker said in the first inspired and poetic turn of his life

Nevaeh turned in his arainst the thinher deeper against hi

"You were sent to kill me," she said with breathy certainty

"I don’t think you have to worry about that now," Parker said, tipping her head back, he began kissing her slowly When her eyes fluttered closed he kissed her lids, working his way down her cheekbones When he began to lick and bite softly at the bones of her neck she became limp and he realized they weren’t quite ready to leave this sliver of shelter

They dropped where they had stood, devouring each other in a frantic and all-consu passion

Like it would be their last pass at happiness, a wisp of s into thin air

Parker understood the irony of Nevaeh’s name A place he didn’t believe in had becoent, broken woman with a secret of which she was unaware

Nevaeh was Heaven spelled backward

No security in the hereafter for Parker, but Heaven had co

Or feeling

Caleb

Bobbi had barely escaped notice The rest of the gang had been rounded up and she had felt, "a blackness" she said, from Clyde that spurred her to find him

In essence, when Frazier had pulled his final Manipulationto find us and it was all a shake down of lucky ti carefully as the snow thickened "Damn!" he said loudly, "I can’t see dick in this white out"

Clyde scowled, looking around at the snow starting to gain ground, piling up on the curbs and sighed "This does not help our pursuit"

Jonesy did the duck head, which I liked to affectionately think of as part of his non-verbal vocabulary "Ya think?" He looked at Clyde like he’d lost it

Bobbi sh behind her hand that sounded suspiciously like a laugh

"You are driving or another cuff would be in order," Clyde gru and hurt like hell"

Clyde gave a genuine smile "Yes, that is the intended consequence"

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