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After Grace’s interrogation, a still stunned-looking Vincent adjusted her hand in his His eyes spoke volumes She’d seen him nervous before, but this wasat her silently the entire ti, but he seemed almost afraid to speak "How…" He stopped to s then take a breath "How bad is this, Rosie?"

"It’s not" She squeezed his hand atterandpa…" He looked away as if to shake the thought away

He’d shared with her about his grandpa’s death after losing his battle with diabetes She hated for hi this was that bad

"It’s just a vitae and because I’m so healthy otherwise, this can easily be controlled The very one away already"

That seemed to calm him a bit, but not a whole lot, so she wrapped her arms around his waist "I feel fine I really do" She turned to Grace "I promise you both I’ll be fine, okay?"

Sal stuck his head in the door "There you are Everyone’s looking for you, Vince What’s going on? Why are you all in here?"

"I’ll explain later," Grace said "But we’re done," she turned to Rose, "for now"

Lorenzo walked out after Grace and Sal Rose and Vincent began walking out until he pulled her to him then pinned her to the wall "So as your bra in Enzo’s car?"

She could see he was serious, but the sit explanation Happy to see his worry had been put aside, though she kneas only for now, she smiled playfully "Well you see, the last time me and hiainst her even harder ae in his backseat You’ve seen e in and out ofBut I ran out of the car so fast a few things "

He stared in her eyes for aher insides into liquid like he always had then kissed her deeply, stopping only to look in her eyes again "I want my bra back" She s it back"

"Why not?"

"Because after having to deal with seeing uy’s car--my brother’s car--I deserve soonna holdthe top button of his ar him in them was such a turn on "Pity, there are so roaned, leaning in and kissing her like she’dShe didn’t even care that they were standing in Grace and Sal’s bedrooer as he kissed her

"Vicente!"

Vincent pulled away instantly Hisat them Okay, now Rose cared She felt her face heat instantly Histo the other end of the hallway then walked into the bathroo another word and closed the door behind her

Vincent turned back to Rose then laughed "Man, I’ve never seen you so red C’ Just wait till she finds out it’s your bra in the backseat of Enzo’s car She’s the one that found it"

Rose covered her face with her hand, groaning "No!"

"Yes!" Vincent laughed

The rest of the evening, as expected, Vincent was pulled from one person to the next Everyone wanted to hear his story Rose had heard it several times, and already she knew no matter how many times he told it, no et the h It’d be with hies and terrifying meht that was it" Vince said deep in thought "They were co in and with a purpose Neither one of us understood what they were saying, but the way they were tearing down that bunker to get to whoever was down there, there was never any doubt they were going to kill us Of course, I wasn’t gonna go doithout a fight, but I could barely move The pain was so bad already, and I was unars he’d given me up until then" He turned to Rose and squeezed her hand "Thanked him for the people in my life I’d been so lucky to have spent so choked up all over again, and he turned back to his cousins and so intently "That’s when the gunfire erupted Me and the Sarg took cover e could and listened to the chaos above us When it was all over like a hed just like he had the first time she’d heard him tell it "They weren’t just there on accident; they’d been sent there to look for us, and they’d arrived just in the nick of ti short of a miracle"