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She was hot and sweaty, needed water or a Coke, and decided to head back There was a co, and she decided it would be fun to ride it It only took a fewon the platform before the train arrived and she was able to board The train was cohts as they sped by

She hopped off when she thought she'd gone the correct distance and looked around to get her bearings She didn't see anything even vaguely fa hit her, but she refused to panic She had her phone if she became lost, and anyway, it was still early in the afternoon

As she wandered around, she wished she could call her cousin, but kneouldn't be home for weeks She didn't know anyone else in the city except Marco, and she wasn't quite that desperate yet

She strolled up and down the block She seemed to be in the hospital district, and wandered around for another fifteen ure out what to do The train that had been so easy to catch before didn't see back around, and she didn't think the h for a cab ride back to her building

She aiting at another crosswalk for the next wave of cars to pass when a sleek black Audi pulled up beside her The ered silently "Get in"

A mild sense of shock hit her that Marco would appear at the exact moment when she needed him, and the hows and whys of it didn't occur to her immediately

She opened the door and slid inside "What are you doing here?" she asked hied, he accelerated and then his eyes briefly left the road and touched on her "Buckle up, Natalie"

She did as he said with fingers that trembled and after a few ain "How did you happen to be there?"

He didn't answer immediately, and when he did, his voice was curt "Coincidence"

But he didn't explain further, and she lapsed into uneasy silence, heron the problem in her brain She didn't for one second believe it was a coincidence He had known she was there And it didn't take her long before she came up with the only answer there could be to the equation of how he could have happened upon her in aher with her cell phone

He expected her to do a runner, and the angry tension on his face confirmed it

But she was innocent of that, and she didn't want to argue with hiured out what he was doing She wasn't brave enough to call hiainst hi "

"Why were you out?" he asked through teeth she could see were clenched Another wave of apprehension took flight in her stomach

It was best to stick to the truth After all, she hadn't done anything wrong except for assu she didn't have to work for him twenty-four hours a day And somehow she knew that her work schedule wasn't the proble She'd tell hi he had a GPS locater on her "I had so to look for a gy, but the day was so pretty I decided to take a walk"