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I stepped forward, wrapping my arms around my center to try to trap some warlanced at the ground and ie, white crescent ht

Lia on the rime had been polished away, and the silver accents and black panels gleaht it ho for a piece of foaashes in the leather

"I like what you’ve done with the place!" I had to shout over Mick Jagger to be heard The radio stood a foot away fro that I didn’t have the right to turn it off You listened to , letting the rhythm and beats flow around you like a shield

Liam spun around, startled His white shirt was spotted with oil and dust, and soed to wipe soood he looked to ht toward him, take his face in between my hands and kiss him and kiss him and kiss hiet everything that had happened between the start of this and now My mind was still on blown-out tires, socks, and the Beach Boys, even as he said, "What’s wrong?"

"Nothing," I ed "I justI orried when you didn’t show up for lights out I wanted to"

"Make sure I didn’t run away? Really?" He started to turn back to his bike but stoppedhis hand to his forehead "Oh, daht?"

The small bubble of contented memory popped around ht That’s the last foggy part Right before you" He waved a hand through the air "Sorry We need a clock in here"

My eyes drifted over his profile, the line of his jaw, and I thought with crushing certainty, I’ a horrible brightness into "

My throat was aching by the ti they didn’t make sense, either Stupid, so stupid I’d wanted distance, hadn’t I? I hadn’t wanted to talk to hiotten how to talk to hiot quieter and he called out, "I’ her Lovely Rita What do you think?"

In spite of everything, I felt ainst the s out in front of him, his arms crossed over his chest II’d ever seen This was the first time Lia-his-hands-through-it hair to the way his jeans were slung low on his hips

"Fits, right?" he said, offering the smallest, sweetest little s back over to hi me so intently, I almost tripped over my own careless feet The warmth that pooled at my center threatened to spark when his arms slid forward, his hands turned up, toward ainst his shoulder

"Yeah," he said, quietly, "but she’s so lovely"

My hands slid up along his back, and I was relieved that it was as hot to the touch as I felt I wanted to ask him about the drive up, what the people they h to just be held, to feel hi up at his face One his handsinto the back pocket ofme when I reached up and tried to thu, "how ers and eyes shifted down, to the pale scar at the right corner of hisdark and insistent pressing at the back of et this scar?" I asked I just needed to hear it from him, to confirm what I’d seen locked inside Cole’syou didn’t," he said, reaching up to catch ood story to it I’ve had it forever Cole told ot it when he pushed me off his bed"

I closed my eyes, let out a soft breath And when he kissed me, I let it chase the truth away

"Cole said you called Harry to help find where they brought Cate," I said "Thank you--thank you soto keep thehed "Like I could ever keep Harry or Mo themselves in trouble Zu’s story pretty ot to talk to them?"

"Yeah, I used one of the extra burner phones," he said "It was a to hear their voices It felt like it had been forever since the last time"

I ran a hand up and down his ar I thought possible Enough, at least, to ignore the s of jealousy in the corner of my heart that was still bruised