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"Rooame plan But first, let"s

„shove all this crap off the bed"," Ty parroted with a smirk as he stood and hauled Zane off the bed, then hooked a foot around Zane"s ankle and shoved hiently to the floor

"Hey!" Zane objected, but he laughed as he thuhtly on the carpet He drew his knees up and balanced his forearms on them as he looked up at his partner "Gee, I feel so loved Thrown on the floor with the rest of the crap," he teased

Ty nodded, pleased with himself He reached over and swept the rest of the stuff off the bed as well, sending it off the edge to land behind Zane on the floor Then he climbed into the round bed, and Zane heard him flop down heavily Zane huffed and shifted to his knees so he could crawl up onto the bed and right over top of Ty "You"re lucky you"re pretty"

"Dareed with a cocky smirk as he stretched like a cat and made hi and lying down next to Ty He looked fro bed, it was actually pretty narrow once you took into account the round ed slightly and folded his hands over his waist "I don"t know if I"ll sleep," Zane h he was a little tired While he slept ht, a really early iness on the job and strange surroundings

Ty didn"t respond, and when Zane glanced over at him, he saw that his partner was already asleep, face relaxed, breathing evenly Zane sighed in exasperation Ty had the same ability as a lot of people who"d ever served in the military: he could sleep on command whenever and wherever Zane envied the ability He carefully turned onto his side and scooted up against him, slid his ar his cheekbone on Ty"s shoulder It was easy to let his eyes close, and he briefly entertained the thought of Ty as his own personal teddy bear as he fell asleep

THEIR personalized itineraries for each day, printed and slid under the door the night before, careen folder tied with a red ribbon and supposedly iven theh they had reviewed the suain as they ate dinner, just to assure himself there weren"t any surprises

He sat at the s as he perused Del Porter"s scheduled activities "I swear to God, if they haveoverboard,"

he mumbled as he rubbed at his sore shoulder The masseuse had warned him he"d be achy for a few days, but this was ridiculous He"d fallen out of helicopters and not been this sore afterward

Zane forked up some salad as he looked at Corbin"s list "Some vacation," he commented "Two scheduled activities a day plus s are pretty clear, looks like"

Ty nodded It was easy to build a profile of the twojust by the activities they"d paid for Rock cli, a fairly tales of Puerto Rico," and several other activities in the sa Ty raised one eyebrow and soing to guess that Corbin"s the adventurer and Del tags along Although he did look like he worked out," Zane commented

"Are there any differences in the itineraries?"

Ty slid his folder closer and peered at Zane"s, cohts reserved at the private-gah stakes" Ty whistled low "A hundred thousand buy-in? Hope you"re not playing with government money, partner," he teased

Zane pointed at a note starred to one side of his itinerary "The Porters" account has been preloaded with the ship"s bursar It doesn"t say how h"

"Do you play poker?" Ty asked as he sat back and studied Zane

He had a feeling Zane would be good at it He had one hell of a poker face

"Yes," Zane said absently, taking another bite of salad as he read through the activities list "Did a lot of galanced up with a smile "Poker is all about statistics and luck"

"Uh huh," Ty responded dubiously "But I" with money, papi, not your life," he said with a pat of Zane"s knee He knew all he wanted to know about what Zane had done in Miaood at both

But I"ll stick to money this time Especially since it"s not mine"

"I appreciate the assurance," Tyhe"d believe that when he saw it

"I don"t diss you and your guns Don"t diss me and my numbers,"

Zane said lanced up at hi the lines of Zane sticking to ga with money and not life and limb, but apparently Zane was still self-conscious when it came to his what bordered on idiot savant levels of nu ability

Ty didn"t really envy the ability, but he did respect it Ty saw things in a jusaw puzzle that had been tossed onto a table He could piece that puzzle together without turning over the pieces to see as on the other side, siht But Zane"s orized theht side up, top to botto from color to the name of the dude who cut them out at the factory, and then methodically snapped them into place

The differences intealanced up fro on Ty"s retort that hadn"t co to turn the conversation another direction "What"s wrong with uns And speaking of, we"ll have to see if they gotunarmed" He reached for the breadbasket, then took a fluffy yeast roll and offered it to Ty

Ty shook his head, shtly It was so easy to distract Zane so to have to carryI have to wear that"s thick enough to conceal a gun is that tux" He nodded toward the gars in the closet He plucked at the shirt he earing

Aside froht at the seams around his shoulders, he found that he kind of liked Del Porter"s wardrobe Most of the clothing was ht muslin or cotton, appropriate for tropical locales But there was no hiding a 38 in the clinging folds