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I looked down at ues and the dried throw up onto pass basic--ever I’ Doc says I have an ulcer Hoeso and ju o back togrin crossing his lips was too much, "What’s that on your boot?"

I shuddered, "I threw up during a CrossFit session"

He laughed and his blue eyes sparkled, "I sort of assu to throw up at least once first week It’s week three, Evie Co up week three" He sat on the bed and rubbedthe rest of us look bad to the newbies"

I shook hed, "Can’t We only have about seven h the nausea, "That’s probably plenty of time for you You’re what--sixteen?"

His hand slipped up ot your stah off as I shuddered from the taste

He squeezed , "I went and saw the kids yesterday"

My head shot up, "Mine?"

He rolled his eyes, "No, the orphans I volunteer with every week ‘Course your kids Jesus"

A smile broke across my lips, nausea be damned, "Hoere they?" My insidesyou Your ood She rocks the hot older lady too, huh?" He winked

I swung ain, "Tell that to your aching back, baby"

I sighed, "I’onna see

He cli beside irl who ran the course faster than the boys in her troop One guy tried to sabotage her and wrecked a rope in the climbs She fell and broke her wrist and still ran it faster than the boys You don’t remember what her naled into the warmth, "The moments I hate you and want to stab you in the eye, are always the moments you redeem yourself"

He put his arirls to love et past this You need to remember what it was like to be fearless"

"Easy to say at fifteen Coe One day, sonny, you’ll be wise likefro to a platfor I would tell my kids not to do"

His body shook as he chuckled at me, "Trust yourself You coulda made the jump up that fence the other day You coulda done it, but you didn’t trust your body"

I looked up into his blue eyes He atching ?

I didn’t trust h of that to last a lifetiet why the commander wanted "

He stroked my head, "Yeah, I think that hy You ran a lot and did yoga Not exactly what theinto his eyes, I noted they’d changed They were dark and moody I frowned, "What?"

He sed, "So that list…"

I nodded, "The one Roxy gave Servario on the plane?"

He looked sick, "We know some people on it"

I waited He looked nervous as he spoke, "Rather, you know so--Jesus--was it sympathy? He felt sad for me? Was it my mom?

"Fitz is on it"

My stomach curdled as I pulled back, "That isn’t even funny"

He shook his head, "I’ completely serious with you Fitz is on the list His real nauys"

"What are we going to do? We can’t kill Fitz He saved you" My heart was beating a ay He would never betray y uy na I ever met My dad trusted Fitz more than anyone, more than he did my mother When my father ‘fake’ died, my mother didn’t have power of attorney Fitz did"

He put a hand up, "Shhhh Let htly in the cheek, "Don’t shushto touch on the mooing in the bank with the cougar couy has you chained to a wall and he’s about to break both your legs You’ll give el on onna be sar’"

He pursed his lips at e to do one pull-up yet? Yeah, I don’t see you getting the chance to save ue out at him