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Since he saw one that looked like her, obviously

Garrett didn’t know a God da about hair, but hers was chocolate broith sohtsto run his fingers through it to see if it felt like silk

She had on a pink, low-cut sweater that was showing just enough cleavage to make his dick stir in his jeans

Milohim and turned around to see what had kept his friend so silent

"Fucking hell She’s hot," Milo whispered as he handed Garrett his usual cup of black coffee with two sugars

Garrett took the stea and just nodded

The beautiful girl had glanced back and forth between thenetic pull neither man could resist They had blindly walked, elbow-to-elbow, over to her table

A few feet away from her, Milo had leaned his head close to Garrett and whispered, "I saw her first"

Garrett alished he’d been the one to voice those words, but he’d been too enraptured by Parker at the time All he wanted to do was stare at her, drink her in, and memorize every inch of her While the three of thehed at her snarky attitude and ade that he first noticed in Parker diue anyone and stood her ground with things she believed in, but she definitely becae in her but chalked it up to her being couard down and be who she really was There were h the years, every once in a while, where she almost became another person for a split second The steal resolve and the strength would shine behind her eyes, then just as suddenly, alot where she was for a moment, she’d blink herself back to reality

He watched Parker shift her body closer to his and rest her elbow on her arainst his sent a shiver down his spine

"I’h, Garrett," she said softly He had to s roughly at the sound of his name on her lips She always es of her naked and pinned beneath hi his name

This time was no exception

Her face inched closer to his, and when she spoke next, he felt her breath on his lips

"Are you going to be able to hold h the streets and look me in the eyes like I’m all you’ve ever wanted?" she asked breathlessly as she placed her hand on his stomach and slid it up to his chest "Will you be able to touch me like you’ve done it a thousand times before, pretend that you know the spot on ertips to make me moan?" she whispered as she traced lazy circles on his chest with her fingertips

Garrett had no idea just hoell she could lie when she needed to She was lying to hiainst her and the s her She told him she was concerned with his ability to handle this, but she kneithout a doubt he could He could hold her and call her his wife and talk about a life they didn’t have and forget all about it when theability would need to be put on display Every word, every touch, and every moment would be real for Parker Every minute she spent with him chipped away another piece of the wall she’d so carefully built She knew the first day she h the years she’d been able to stop it fro, but now she didn’t have a choice She didn’t have Milo as a buffer or her job to take her away froet back on track Her conflicting feelings would be on display, ht years for the duration of this ood at her job She was pheno on the job at hand But there would be no way to do that this ti, fiery inferno She would be alone with Garrett, falling easily into the fantasy of the two of the unfaithful to Milo would be eating her alive It didn’t matter if he was dead and buried Garrett was Milo’s best friend No s were only one-sided, it would be a betrayal of Milo’s memory and all that he meant to them

Garrett stared at her lips while she spoke and tried to keep his hand away frohs and ue dart out to slide across her top lip He wondered what the hell she was doing right noith her voice He had never heard her talk that way, all breathy and seductive--at least not with hiutter pronto before he did so really stupid like ask his best friend to join the Mile High Club with hi Parker over the sink in the bathroo her skirt up so he could run his hands over her s into her, teet back on track so he moved a few inches away from her

"I’oing to do e’re walking down an alley and a group of three aruns at your head?" he asked seriously

Garrett had to s back the revulsion he felt picturing Parker with a gun pointed at her He would do everything in his power tothis mission His heart wouldn’t be able to take it

Parker confidently reached up and popped the first three buttons of her shirt until her cleavage and the edges of her red lace bra were visible Garrett’s eyes i her chest heave with every breath she took, her breasts straining against the thin lace fabric covering theh to disarm him," she said softly as she re the 9mm SIG M11 she slid from his shoulder holster while his eyes were otherwise occupied With a straight face shehim in the chest

"When number two comes to the rescue, a double roundhouse kick to the wrist will force his gun out of his hand, allowing ht elbow to the sternuh for the shot," Parker explained easily, raising the gun a little higher so it was aimed directly at his heart and pretended to fire

"Shock will be on my side for number three," Parker continued "A double sweep kick should drop hiht between the eyes," she said, aiher so the barrel pointed to the ," she whispered

Garrett hadn’t blinked or spoke in the last couple of minutes, and he wasn’t sure he’d ever recover the ability to do so His brain was at ith his libido, and he wasn’t positive which would win or which he wanted to win for that un turned hi to her talk about disar killers with such casual nonchalance made his dick hard and baffled hiun to her lap and watched all of the emotions play on Garrett’s face Some of theht have suspected that her display turned hihed at that idea

She’d once stood before hi him to sleep with her, and he was completely unaffected Parker had been upset and drunk at the tiht have been a little off

"Say so," Parker whispered