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She shrugged one shoulder "Maybe it was that our future together was uncertain"

"That makes no sense toon so down, I was deter hooked Believe me when I say that I’ve explored every possible theory as to why you weren’t in that vision and I haven’t coht now is that you aren’t going to take the vision as a sign that we shouldn’t be together or some stupid shit like that"

She scrutinised my face "Why have you toldthat I’ll do a bunk Why tell s from you I don’t want lies – not even lies of o that can eat away at the bond, and it didn’t feel right to keep this fro that you won’t leave"

And that was a dareatest fears were that so would happen to her or that she would leave Honestly, it was still a shock that she had giventhat I’d been a total assle when she first arrived at The Hollow The fact that she Bound with led my mind because I just found it too difficult to accept that she’d always care for me I knew my faults, kne fked up I was And when your own mother couldn’t love you, it made it hard to believe that anyone else would Yet, here Sao? The crazy bitch wasn’t going anywhere If she believed differently, then she was crazier than I thought

She stroked the tip of her finger overme It h to know just how big it was for me to place trust in another person "I don’t care about the vision, Jared I’"

It didn’t sound like there was a ‘but’ co to try fightingbad?"

"No Besides, I know that you would choose to be withAntonio if you wereto worry about, do I?"

A relieved s to worry about" I licked at the sea her to open forher own, drinking her into me It was a few minutes before I finally pulled back By then, I was hard all over again Gently, I lifted her and slowly iroaned "All that other stuffanother groan fro"

I snorted, slowly io anywhere It just meant that I would have had to tie you to the bed for a while, keep you prisoner until you changed youranother swivel "That actually sounds like it would have been fun, but it won’t be necessary I love you; I ain’t going anywhere unless you’re co with " I laid her down on the sheet and then gently rolled so that she was straddling me I let her take the lead this time; it was slow, but still deep, and I came as hard as I always did

When the aftershocks finally subsided, she sighed "Now take us back to bed before any sand "

I chuckled, bringing her to lie flat against ht then, and she knew it

Her face softened "Always"

Chapter Nineteen

(Sam)

Where the bloody hell was Jared? As I scanned the crowded parlour roo and sne-flavoured NSTs, I was re cere wasn’t at all , but it was part of the build-up to the Coronation, so there wasn’t a lot I could do about it Yep, in under an hour’s tih Pair

Note to self: When Jared and I step down from our positions, make the pre-party to the Coronation fun

It had been three weeks since the attack on The Hollow, and with the help of hundreds of volunteers, the place was inal state – if not better There were slight differences here and there The main difference was that half of the mansion was now office space When Antonio had heard that Jared and I didn’t want to ht to us, it seemed toohis ‘living quarters’ He felt that us having individual work space in the very centre of the conificance on our role in The Hollow

He had also insisted that the Grand High Pair couldn’t live in a simple apartment Jared and I had told him not to be daft, that we didn’t care where we lived and didn’t need a spacious, luxurious home So what had Antonio done? Built us a house I had been pissed off about his complete lack of respect for our wishes until I realised that the house was built on the beach Antonio, the sneaky sod, knew I loved the beach and that I’d find this too hard to resist I’d still ranted at him a little But he’d been perfectly aware that I’d been absolutely thrilled with the house – the fact that I’d uncharacteristically kissed hi Wes with his h Masters Rowan and Ricardo, I randson, so he had no doubt spoken to hih tradition was for only a feitnesses to be present at a Coronation while everyone else watched over V-Tube, Antonio had felt that these allies who had coreatest possible hour of need and had aided us in fixing The Hollow deserved to be present if they so desired He had a good point

Noticing roup "Sam," he draith an affectionate smile He placed his hands on my upper arht there Co" Of course he already knew that