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We finished up breakfast like it was any noret that no matter what promises Luc and Archer made, it could be the very last ties of clothes Archer had found for us

My heart kicked around my chest as I watched her shove the final sweater into a duffel bag we’d found in the closet Once we left, things were going to happen fast, and I had no idea e’d face on the road or e met up with Hunter

This literally could be the last ti a pessimist The truth e’d be stuck with Archer The three of us were glued together for the foreseeable future, and if things went south, well, this would truly be the last tiether

Kat zipped up the bag and turned around Her hair was down, and I always liked it that way There was a slight pink flush to her cheeks and her dove-gray eyes seemed to take up her whole face

Her lips tipped up at the corners, and it said so powerful that she could still s down around us "What?" she asked

"Nothing" I took a step forward and then another, until I was standing right in front of her and she had to tip her head back

I slowlythe high sweep of her cheekbones, the heavier fringe of the lashes at the outer corners of her eyes, down to the slight upturn in her nose and the fuller bottom lip

Damn, I didn’t want to waste theseher Most of all, I wished our paths had been different Not that ouldn’t be together or some crap like that, but for the first time, I wished I were hu race of aliens That we’d graduated high school like norether, and, instead of packing up to go knee-deep into the lair of sociopaths, ere planning a weekend at a beach or whatever the hell nor tis that could never happen really was for losers And I asting very li her softly at first, and when her hands landed onback around my neck, I deepened the kiss God, I could live on the taste of her

Taking my time--time we really didn’t have--I traced the pattern of her lips, co the feel of them to memory A tiny, breathytheir way through the hair atevery cell

My hands slid down her sides, lingering around her waist for a moment, and then I smoothed my palm over her hips that rounded out sweetly I wanted to be closer, all up in her I was a needy bastard like that, but she liked it

"Two ainst her ed a path of kisses to her ear "Mmm, I like the way you think"

"I’m not surprised"

"You knoell"