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The rock on the floor see it Not because I know that the police ant to check it for fingerprints, but because of the vaguely superstitious feeling that if I do, so horrible will be transferred from it to ed to enterI can do is run from it

That’s not what I need to do, of course What I need to do is fight

But how the hell do you fight what you can’t see?

As if in answer, Daers withhis touch calossip--I eather it all if he is at ht now, he is on the phone with the head of his security team The police have already been called, but there’s no way that Das up, and turns that laser-like focus on me

He lifts our joined hands "Are you okay?"

"Yes," I say, then repeat the word for emphasis "Yes, I’m fine Now, I’ for the e under my words For ahilass I close my eyes I’d been too focused on the rock earlier And then Damien had taken my hand But if he hadn’t, I knoould have felt that fateers "I have you"

"You do," he says, and though his eyes are soft, his tone is businesslike "I’ll give you the choice of Malibu or don, but until we catch whoever is doing this, you are staying with er"

Since I’reement I meant what I said earlier, but this has crossed the line into actual danger And I’ my safety on a point of honor

"I’d rather stay in Malibu," I admit "But there’s no furniture" The house was barely finished before we left for Germany, and I assu Blaine and the reveal of my portrait have already been returned to whatever warehouse they caht back," he says "And I’ll have Sylvia arrange to rent enough furniture to make the rest of the house livable" He pulls me close for a soft kiss "We can decorate slowly, and as we find pieces we like, we’ll kick the rented pieces out on their asses"

I roll my eyes, but I can’t help but smile I had almost come undone when Damien had told ether I don’t want to lose that because so rocks atto tell hi with us, or are we getting her a hotel?"

I slide into his arrateful and so full of love for this man I’m not sure that I can stand onJamie, she’d love to stay at the Malibu house"

"I’ll have Sylvia get a key and the security code to her in Arrowhead, and send soo straight to Malibu when she returns"

"Thank you," I say again

"What else do you need?"

I e to just have all this be over?"

"I wish I could," he says, dropping down beside me