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Tyler stopped talking, and his eyes flicked down toover He inhaled, as if it was taking every last ounce of will to keep fro ive in I wanted to feel like a nor on ers around the back of his neck

He surrendered easily, lowering his head in an instant A sound sorowl and a moan escaped his throat the moment his mouth covered er cared about whether I was a nor different Because I was Tyler’s

He’d said as ly perfect, ravenous kiss

It was that very sah, that masked the footsteps And it was the kiss, too, that kept er alone

It wasn’t until I heard the click--until we both heard the click--that we ju, but uy spoke, it took"Don’t un too--crushed any hope I’d had that everything was going to be okay, that I would just go back to being plain old Kyra Agnew, regular girl The guy behind the gun was a younger, fresher-faced version of the stiff NSA agent who’d been shadowing me wherever I went

Like the others back at s, and he lifted it to his mouth and pressed a button "I found her," he spoke into the crackling radio "We’re at" He shot a quick glance at Jackson, as cowering in the doorway behind him "Where are we?"

"Second-Chance Coaze on the gun in the agent’s other hand, the one he was holding on Tyler and me

The agent repeated what Jackson said into the radio and then told Jackson, "Good Now go out front and wait for someone to arrive so they knohere to find us"

Jackson flashed Tyler an I’h he didn’t say a word He avoidedus alone with the young NSA agent

"What do you want?" Tyler asked the agent, taking the lead andun

I didn’t have a plan--everything was happening too fast to think But I didn’t stay where Tyler put me Instead, I reached down and snatched the box knife off the floor, clutching it in ent sahat I’d done, probably because I hadn’t been exactly subtle about it, but he stayed where he was, his gun still cocked and trained on the two of us I didn’t blauess he’d heard the expression "You don’t bring a knife to a gunfight"