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Parker let her hand fall from away from her mouth and finally found her voice

"Milo?"

Chapter Twenty

The air was thick with humidity and rife with shock Parker couldn’t tell if the sweat dripping down her back was fro a few feet in front of her looked exactly like thea time in her life when she desperately needed friends He was the same man she had been prepared to love and cherish for the rest of her life He was the sah, took care of her, and let her be her own person

He looked the same, aside from the facial hair, but he was vastly different fro at his that were different She had proof he was a liar and so far reht she knew, she could almost pretend like they were two different people

But they weren’t

Her best friend and the disgusting man she discovered as they delved deeper and deeper into the mission were one in the same

Frozen, just like she had been when she stood in the casket roo to decide between solid any ith jewel-tone accessories and sienna bronze with European-style hardware until she finally curled up in the corner of the room and told Garrett she couldn’t do it because she wasn’t ready to say goodbye She re the closed casket Garrett had chosen the twenty-four by thirty-six black and white photograph of Milo propped up on an easel in the corner The iven shoith ninety-nine point nine percent accuracy, the man sent home in a box was her fiancé

But then she re in a dirty, dark alley after being beaten and raped She remembered the testiirls over the years, co out of hotel roo a life with her

At sos to not come any closer and had stopped where he was, his hands still in the air and a flash of fear in his eyes

The past and the present swirled through Parker’s ed together until she finally understood that she wasn’t dreah for her to touch

And the fear she caught a glio was because of her, since presently she held her weapon with shaking hands and aiood reason why I shouldn’t pull the trigger, you un down," Garrett told her softly as he shuffled hile hat to do and wished he could just turn back the clock He didn’t even knohere he wished the hands of time could take theht then

Garrett made it quietly to Parker’s side and reached out with his hand, wrapping it around hers

"It’s okay," Garrett whispered in her ear as he gently pushed her hands down until the gun pointed at the ground instead of the man in front of them Neither one noticed the sae unfold in front of him

Garrett didn’t have any clue if they could trust Milo or what he was trying to prove by showing up, but he was certain that if Brady are of his presence and didn’t take hiood explanation for it His teaerous man anywhere near them if they could help it Brady knew Milo had been there waiting for the him into custody, Brady let him wait by their villa and tried to warn the to brief the new tea will be okay now?" Brady asked Garrett

Garrett gave hi hiht nod of his head in answer to his non-verbal question Garrett disun from Parker’s hands after he walked away

"Thanks," Milo said to hi too clearly right now, and she ht be a little irritated with herself if she killed you and wasn’t alert enough to watch while you suffered," Garrett said with enough bite in his words,Milo look away frouys have a lot of questions, and you have every right to be pissed off Please, just give ed

"We planned your funeral We ht now that could make up for that," Parker said with scorn as she took a step towards hiirls, about all of your sick trips here to the Dominican Catalina Olivera was a child Just barely sixteen years old She had her whole life ahead of her"

Parker took another step in Milo’s direction until she stood toe-to-toe with him Garrett stuck close to her side, still not one hundred percent certain of Milo’s intentions

"Everything about you is a lie and it makes me sick to stand here and look at you, alive and well, when you’ve left a trail of young girls in your wake They’d still be here today if it weren’t for you," Parker fu her jaw

Milo let out a sigh and looked at Parker sadly

"There is an explanation for all of that, I swear I’ to discuss lies, I think you had quite a big one yourself, Agent Parker," Milo said softly

Parker’s hand flew out before he barely finished the sentence Instead of the so, her fingers curled into a fist and her knuckles connected with his nose The sound of cartilage shattering with the force of her blow made Garrett wince

"Son of a bitch!" Milo yelled as his hands flew to his nose and blood poured down the front of his face, dripping off of his chin