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"Reflex," Zane answered "I actually had my side to it" He lifted his hand to his mouth as a trickle of blood seeped from the abused skin just under the curve of his chin

"Eh Ass, face, saood hand flashed out and smacked Ty upside the back of the head

"Ow! What the hell?" Ty cried as he rubbed his head and huffed

"You’re lucky I repress the Instakill for you," he lass in the heel of his hand "My lucky streak is about played out"

"Want a little cheese with that whine, htly, not even wanting to think about wine The pain orsein the car "Let’s just get to the hotel I feel like a pincushion"

"Look like one, too," Ty observed dryly as the elevator doors opened

"After you, Oh Injured One," Ty invited with a sweeping gesture of his hand

"Want leeful anticipation in his voice

Zane looked at Ty sideways "Why do you have that ‘I’’ sound in your voice?" he asked suspiciously as they got outside and approached the car

"I don’t," Ty answered defensively "Don’t bleed on the seats," he added with a huff as he slid into the driver’s seat "God, I hate driving in the city," hehis eyes as he sat carefully and felt glass chunks dig into the backs of his thighs, Zane’s face went very still as he gritted his teeth "I’ripped the door handle to keep hi on the parts that got hit," Ty suggested

"Just get us out of here"

"You got it," Ty grinned as he tore out of the parking place and out of the parking deck in record tiot to the street "I love the flashy blue lights," he told Zane al, Zane braced one hand on the seat behind hiot to the hotel quickly and in one piece without leaving carnage behind, so he didn’t say a single word By the tiot upstairs, Zane seriously wanted several stiff drinks Hell A bottle

"Strip," Ty ordered as soon as the door was closed "And face down on the bed," he added as he took off his jacket and tossed it onto the back of a chair, then began rolling up his sleeves

Zane walked over to the corner of the roolass chunks scatter on the carpet as he dropped it

Instead of trying to pull the holster off, he pulled at the straps to totally unfasten it, and he carefully set it and the gun on the stacks of files covering the small round table It was followed by the sheaths, but for one knife that he pulled and used to handily slice open his Henley fro it over his head The back of the shirt wasas the fabric pulled debris fragments loose as he peeled it off

He unfastened his jeans and shoved thes lass He toed out of his shoes and socks, leaving them under the jeans, and stepped free to the foot of the bed He crawled onto thebut his boxer briefs and settled on his belly with several winces

Ty watched him with a furrowed brow, his face unreadable as his eyes followed the bits of bloody clothing to the floor He snapped open his KA-BAR folding knife with a distinctivehis lips together hard, Zane closed his eyes It occurred to hiht need to be worried, but he ht He wasn’t all that sure he trusted Ty, but he did trust hiiven the chance Grady had already had those chances

Ty knelt on the bed beside hientle as he tried not to jostle Zane toohis head beside Zane’s ear to get a better look at the glass frag for soleefully anticipatory tone of voice he had used earlier

"Go on," ZaneIt would hurt like hell, but it all had to coery this ti enjoyment, but it would have required him to move

Ty didn’t touch him for severalover the wounds quietly Finally, he ht dip in the bed the only indication that he was even still there A moment later cold steel touched the skin of Zane’s nape Once, twice, three ti over the skin as if Ty were touching the side of the blade to his skin experiain The movement was repeated several more tilass shards being deposited into Ty’s hand after every three or four flicks of the knife

Zane’s eyes squeezed shut and his fingers curled in the bedspread, but otherwise he didn’tshallowly to keep his back still, and he thought after this a good, angry fit was in order

So removed as Ty scraped, just little pricks

Other ti stilled as he felt the glass pry loose, leaving a tiny gouge behind

"When I was in the service they had us testing this stuff," Ty told him in a conversational manner as he saw the on Skin Body Aro, you know, before it would give in Put it through the wringer

And since ere these crazy-ass Recon boys with a bit of a reputation for destroying governured we’d be perfect to do it Well, we took that shit everywhere with us Threw it out of planes, planted landrenades at it, ran over it with a Humvee My buddy and I even set it up on this pole once and launched a ground-to-air missile at it God, that was funny as hell," he e we ever did to it was tear the cover fabric," he told Zane in a tone that could have been respect "But the Bureau don’t allow it You tell me why that is, hmm?"

"Because they don’t want us to turn into pansy-asses?"

"Natural selection, h to run away froet weeded out"

Zane chuckled and winced "Fuck, don’t ed

"Hold still," Ty warned with a hand pressed to the back of Zane’s head He laughed suddenly, nearly snorting as he said, "I’ve had dates like this"

"Christ Now, he develops a sense of humor," Zane complained