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Chapter Nine

HARPER

I turn away quickly so I don’t have to look at him

"Harper?" he asks softly

I have no words I just have no words

"Harper?" He toucheshim off

"Don’t"

"I swear to God, I’m not here for you"

"Where were you last?"

"I can’t say"

I already knew that So I change the question slightly "Where were you last year?" He pauses and I turn so I can see his face as heback the months, maybe But they are trained to do that, aren’t they? "I’" I tap my foot like a petulant child and his eyes drop down to my flip flop and then he looks up at me and smiles

How could this man be one of them? I don’t understand how anyone with those di up a friend’s job over in a small, nondescript European country Which is where all my trouble really started"

"Not in the South Pacific?" I ask warily Like he would tell me

"No I don’t work that side of the world Haven’t been back in there since I was assigned when I was sixteen" He watches me as I process his words Since he was sixteen He’s been killing people since he was sixteen "OK?" he asks, breaking the silence "We good?"

I shake ainst the wall He comes towards me and puts his hands on my hips and plays with my belt loops "Harper," he whispers inaway from you You need to understand that Accept it I’ for the first time in my life I want you I want to be inside of you I’ve waited patiently for so fking long And this was a stroke of luck Being sent here and finding you"