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"Can I get a little help here?" she asked her landlord, who see bite out of a chocolate cupcake, he shook his head and gestured for her to get on with it

Bastard!

Making a mental note to tattletale on the bastard later to his wife, she shifted her gaze to the playroo and threats of spankings were louder than ever, and sighed It looked like she was on her own

Resting her head against his chest, she tightened her grip around him and said, "I can’t"

"I understand," Danny said, taking her by surprise as he walked back to the checkout desk and carefully placed her on the edge of the counter As he pulled away, he gave her a boyish s if maybe-

"Aliens can only be defeated with Ellue, kids, not paste," he explained with a wink as he stepped back and away and-

"Get her!"

"Wait! No, wait!" she yelled, rushing to pull her legs up so that she could jued to pull her right leg up when they grabbed her and with one surprisingly hard pull, yanked her off the counter She squeezed her eyes shut, biting back a scream as she waited for her back and bottom to make contact with the old cracked asp when a pair of strong ar her fro, she opened her eyes to find herself staring into a set of intense ereen eyes She opened her ot the chance Before she kneas happening, he was leaning down and kissing her Warly sweet and incredibly sexy, et where she was, and that she was surrounded by a bevy of demonic children determined to destroy her Lost in sensation, a soft moan escaped her as she parted her lips and-

Blinked her eyes open with a soft grunt as she suddenly found herself sitting on theto make sense of what had just happened when Danny said, "She’s all yours," and stepped back

It took a few seconds for those three words to register in her mind and when they did, it was too late

The children had found the Ellue

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"Why did you feel it was necessary to sic those kids on her?" Trevor asked as they paused in front of a set of bookshelves built into the wall

"I was bored," Matthew said with a shrug as he stepped back so that his father could measure the shelves while Danny inspected theust The entire library was going to have to be gutted at this rate

Trevor sighed heavily as he ers aside so that his son could read the measurements and write it down "What did we talk about?" he asked Matthew, sounding patient for a o was forced to sweet talk two dozen angryhis wife……and the National Guard

"That there areothers forco Danny wonder just how many times Trevor had been forced to drill it into the kid’s head It was actually kind of frightening, and if he wasn’t still thinking about those soft lips giving beneath his, he’d probably be a little concerned for his cousin

"Then why did you do it?" he found hi that now probably wasn’t the best ti about Tinkerbelle

Matthew shrugged as he wrote down the measurements "She wouldn’t tell me why she was pink"

"And?" he asked with a frown, positive that he’d