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"Be safe out there?" she whispered as she tucked her ar, he took one last look at her … and then de place west and south of where her faust that ht in the face and he breathed deeply All his life, he had had great success pushing e a cap on thehts about Elise
Too bad he could still taste her
Peyton was the next to show up, and as they faced off, Axe was ready for a fight, prepared to start shit if he had to to get things going
But Craeg and Paradise arrived and stepped between the this Waste of tierous godda with you two?"
"Nothing," Axe said without looking away "Absolutely fucking nothing"
"Good" Craeg didn’t ot no probleh Pey-pey’s elbow and pivoted hi to tell ht, reme pathetic that it was required But Mr and Mrs Training Prograroup of theht None of that classroouns and fun, as the Brothers called it
Last thing anyone needed was interpersonal drarave
Elise was floating on air as she went up the back staff stairs The last thing she wanted was to be caught in her bathrobe, sht air and the male she had just kissed out in the front yard
Funny, she had wanted exactly this tingling enticeo She had wanted this exact blossoh she hadn’t really knohat it was She had been searching, and she had been found And it was beautiful
Her bubble of happiness did not persist
She reached the second floor and was padding quietly down the carpeted hall, going past the closed doors of the guest suites and her father’s quarters, when she neared an open portal into a black rooh he had to be standing just inside the darkness "… this eve? Mayhap I shall have a meal set upon a quiet table for the two of us?"
The response from her aunt was so quiet, Elise couldn’t hear the words
"Well …," her uncle murmured "Yes, I shall come back then Mayhap at some other, later time I think there is--what? … Yes I know you do not sleep…"
Elise crossed her arms around herself and walked quickly past him with her head down and her eyes on the carpet But her uncle must have heard her or sensed her because just as she caht