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I bit my bottom lip "You’re addicted to me?"

"Don’t be obtuse The second I heard your name, I was on to you in a heartbeat"

I raised a brow questionably "Why when you heard my name?"

"Maybe it sounded pretty"

I rolled my eyes "Bullshit excuse, but nice try So now talk"

He didn’t respond for aI tried to think of what , and I came up absolutely short There was zero reason, at least, that I knew of

Licking his bottom lip slowly, he finally whispered, "You once said to me… help is for the weak"

I stilled

What?

"I don’t get it," I replied slowly, but deep inside, I kind of did My brain was raspingto e it, but I simply shook my head No No way I needed more to be sure

"Alley cat," I whispered to h my mind I had wondered too often why he called ht, alley cat?

"It was you?" I asked, still treading carefully because I could have been wrong, though ut told me I wasn’t

He smiled softly "Yeah, it was me, and you certainly weren’t a dainty floere you?"

I didn’t respond I aluy I pictured in ht It’d been so dark, and I’d been so shaken up and scared, I’d never really taken the tiood look at the man that saved me

What were the chances? It was almost impossible to think that man was Marcus Borden, someone I’d always known froainst so?" he softly asked, running his thumb across my cheek

I didn’t even knoas

"I’m shocked," I answered hiht about you a lot after that time When I came to my senses, I realized I owed youbecause I didn’t knoho you were I didn’t even remember what you looked like How did you remember me?"