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"You want tolilt in my voice, my heartbeat fluttered wildly as I waited for his response
Deacon cocked his brows atfor a proposal, White-Bread?"
I shrugged "Maybe"
"Then et it," he replied with a wink Then he dipped his head to bestow a gentle kiss on et married before you Guess it makes sense you would be the one I would rin that hidanything else"
"I’ll take you--just as you are" After a few breathless ain pulled back "Are you sure you shouldn’t go see your brothers tonight?"
"I should But I want nothing ain "Another twelve hours isn’t going to et to kick my ass"
With a giggle, I replied, "You deserve it"
"After everything, you do understand why I did what did, don’t you?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, yes, I do I just wish there had been a way you could have let us know you were all right"
Deacon shook his head "Appearances are everything If , then the plan wouldn’t have worked"
"Well, Sigel bought the lie that you were dead That’s for sure" The ret flooded el’s visit to ly taken a pin off of a grenade
Tightening his arms around me, Deacon asked, "What do youfull well that Rev and Bishop would tell him about the encounter, I replied, "He paid ," Deacon demanded
One of my favorite poems had always been Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" As I stood there in Deacon’s arms, I faced my own crossroads One ould be the easy route where I told Deacon about Sigel wanting the cut That ould lead to a shon that would end with one or both of theotten Deacon back I didn’t intend to lose hiain
The second path entailed the plan I had masterminded on the back of Archer’s bike It involveder to ensure the safety of the ones I held dear In the end, it wasn’t as hard a choice as I had thought it would be It was the reason why I’d stolen the cut tonight Only I would face Sigel when it ca over the cut
"He wantedafter me or Willow That with you out of the picture, the slate was clean," I lied
Deacon’s brows furrowed "He came to your school just to tell you that?"
"I think he kneouldn’t have a shot to talk to me anywhere else that wouldn’t be overrun with Raiders Maybe it was a ploy to make the Raiders back off of me I don’t know"