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Dawg had gone after Grael when the other man had sprinted for the shadowed, crated area in the front of the warehouse Grael had gone after the wo had been a second later, Crista would have died

No one could possibly knoas involved in this investigation Other than the task force meents It would shock him to his back teeth to find out one of the before And as he said, trust wasn’t one of his virtues If he even had a virtue He was a vices type of guy, virtues weren’t his strong point

The file was eainst Crista, which meant he didn’t have to tell Cranston she was involved At least, not just yet

Slapping the file closed on the desk, Dawg rose to his feet and glanced at Natches His cousin was rising fro on the table

"Ready to roll?" Natches s with a for theoing over his paperwork Her eyes had gleamed in joy the minute she saw the mess his personal office had beco at diamonds rather than the paperwork fro Natches, had found no end of a in Dawg’s oversized chair as she told hiet the hell out of her hile she organized his hed the question in resignation

"Think smelly candles and vases of flowers" Natches lifted his head, his nostrils flaring as though testing the air for a sweet scent "I’ back at Dawg

Hell, if all it took was the scent of vanilla and roses to keep her tight ass out of trouble, then he was all for it He was to the point that he was ready to pull his hair out He hadn’t had her in his life forty-eight hours yet, and she already had hie that explosion was imminent

Explosion of the sexual sort He was so damned hard he was about to rupture his jeans with his erection Or choke said erection with the confine Hell, he had a feeling he could take her for hours and still not have enough of her

As they left the small downstairs office Cranston had taken in the London, Kentucky, courthouse, Dawg stayed carefully on guard for watching eyes Exiting the lower level, they were able to stay out of the ents used other exits, other hallways

Paranoia It had been bred into hi before he ever joined the Marines and then the ATF Even as a kid, too daun to develop a suspicious nature

Of course, with two cold, selfish egomaniacs as parents, how could he help it? His et her Eainst them tirelessly And his father Hell, his father had been aswondered hody had hit it so lucky His father, Ray, had been tough but caring And Rowdy had never suffered a beating in his life

Until Daas old enough and big enough to fight back, his father had taken great delight inhadn’t inherited his father’s habit of striking first, but his mother’s insidious paranoia was a part of hiet out of his head the look in Crista’s eyes when he asked her about a pregnancy For a second, pain and fear and sorrow had flashed in the chocolate orbs It had been so quick he couldn’t even be certain it had been there Paranoia or fact?

He shook his head as he and Natches lasses from his shirt pocket and placed them on his nose as he stared around the sunlit courthouse parking lot

"Stop worrying so much," Natches murmured as they straddled the bikes "We have any nulanced over at hih, dangerous ru sense of freedoave him was absent now

He had found a new freedo buried so deep inside Crista that he could feel her heartbeat

Agonizing arousal clenched his cock and balls at the thought of taking her The shock and surprise that had at first filled her eyes had been followed closely by desperation, desire, and emotions he didn’t want to even think about But she had burned him alive

There had been more pleasure in her arms than he’d had in a lifetime of sexual acts, and that was damned scary

Because he wasn’t a fool He knehat they were facing One little slipup, one agent re, and he would be revealed; Crista would be betrayed And, hell, that would suck Because there wasn’t a chance he was going to let Hoet their hands on her

If he was paranoid, then Homeland Security was over the lient in charge of the investigation, washad known before or since He would jerk Crista out of Soht to a detention center out of the country And once there, she would be buried in sored tape and shadows that he would never find her again

Once they were far enough fro and Natches turned their Harleys onto a secluded lane and pulled into the s thebefore turning his gaze to Natches

"What did you find out?"

Natches had talked to the agents last night, subtly questioning the but me," he drawled "I reported that you cairlfriend’s car to drive in I was point, remember? No one can question me, because no one else knows any different"