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"Go with Penna I’ll stay," Nick said, coly handsoht blue eyes, and a Paul Walker mouth "You must be Leah I’lad to meet the woman who’s tamed Wilder"

"It’s nice to s about you"

"None of theriot it here"

"I’ll stay, too," I told Paxton as they loaded Penna into the back of the ambulance "Between the two of us, we’ll take care of it"

Paxton nodded once, then pulled ht I almost lost you"

"You almost did," I said, and we both knew I meant more than what had just happened

"I love you, Leah If that , I will Everything is eently "I love you, too Now go"

"Does this mean…?"

"It means we’ll talk later Get your ass in the ambulance and keep me updated"

"I knohat it took for you to trustfor you to trusta little more time for my brain to catch up to whatto be his

He stole one more kiss and then jumped into the back of the a lowered into a police car, her eyes locked on Nick

"I’ht that it had been Brooke all this tiainst Paxton But I knew thatcompared to Nick’s

"Me, too," he answered, his eyes saddened with a loss I could only iine "Me, too"

Chapter Thirty-One

Paxton

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