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"Slon," he said, coughing

Of course she didn’t For such a small woman she moved damn quick when pissed, heon his knees on sed rocks as the current threatened to shove hiot back to his feet His little ood thirty yards ahead of him now

He stuht "Munchkin," he gasped, cringing as pain shot through his chest

"What?!" she delare at hiht, buddy," she said, taking that as her cue to storrily wiping the tears off her face "You people kidnaphell out of me, threaten to drop ood, soht would never happen forover to hi that help would arrive for his Munchkin "Well, you have another thing coher fists on her hps as she glared up at hiood"

"For ood?" she nearly screeched

"Have to be," he sucked in a breath, "quiet," he said, hoping like hell that no one could hear the, but she of course ignored hilare up at him

"You don’t want to be uess what? I don’t want you," she said around a loud sob as she shoved hi hurt It didn’t hurt that her hand slammed into his broken ribs

His vision di and Izzy’s cries for help registered in his ed to say as his world flickered black

Chapter 36

"Chris? Chris!" she cried as Chris’ eyes closed and his body dropped into the ice cold water before she could grab hiod, had she killed hiht of Chris being dead No, he couldn’t be dead He couldn’t be She was ry that he didn’t want the baby and that he was still planning on sending her off after she thought they were getting closer

Not that she expected hi She wasn’t an idiot Okay, she ht have wondered what it would be like to fall asleep in his ar, one or two dozen times over the last ten hours since he turned into sweet, funny Chris, the Chris that she was afraid she justin love with

The way he couldconnection she felt with hi hard for him and she was helpless to stop it She knew he hadn’t wanted anything perht have felt the sa to let her know that she wasn’t in this all alone and that maybe for once someone truly cared about her

But he didn’t Clearly nothing had changed between the her off and now felt like he had to take the one thing she’d never thought she’d have and would never give up Not without a fight