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Warring with hied--and then Leese was there

"I’ll see that she makes it to her car"

A red haze clouded Armie’s vision, but what could he say? If it was anyone other than Rissy, he wouldn’t think a thing of it

"Seriously" Hands on her hips, Rissy huffed at one and all "I can walk out on my own steam"

Leese shifted ie "Uht" He turned back to Arht and I don’t want to keep her waiting"

"I do not need you to walk me out" Then in quick succession, she said, "This is ridiculous If it’ll et tobeyond Leese, Ar them

Knowing Leese wasn’tmoves on Rissy lanced at Rissy and kept it casual "Drive safe" Then he headed over to Havoc The sooner he got done, the sooner he could join Rissy at his apartiven her a key already? He’d take care of that as soon as he got ho an eye on Rissy as she headed to the door with Leese He s against the door fra watch as Rissy headed out across the busy street and into the dark lot

They finished taking a corny picture of Ar he could head out, that he’d only be athe fans when suddenly Leese went rigid, then took off in a dead run into the night

Fear cut into Ar had happened

Blindly he pushed free of the small crowd and shoved his way across the room and out the door--where he saw Rissy knocked to the opposite curb, one shoe in the street, her purse du and everyone but her With no thought for the traffic, he charged across the street Leese was already helping her to sit up and she said, fast and breathless, "I’ in front of her, Armie smoothed her hair away and saw blood on her bottoathered her into his lap

"She was damn near hit," Leese said "Some idiot"

Armie looked at him It surprised hi with it Their gazes , Leese looked up and down the street, then crouched down again and in an enraged whisper, said, "Swear to God, Armie, it looked like the lunatic tried to run her over"

THEY BOTH PULLED into his apart lot half an hour later Armie hadn’t wanted her to drive, had in fact wanted to call the police But Merissa insisted it was her fault, that she’d been daydreah attention to traffic and she’d already been e so awk at her Denver, Miles, Brand, Justice had all stood together, creating a solid wall that offered her sohtened her clothes and smoothed her hair Leese had fetched her shoe fros of her du how their inner circle worked, Leese had quietly told hi"

Since Rissy had insisted on driving, Armie had helped her to her car, then taken a et in touch with Cannon and together with Leese they’d decide if so on One of them would be in touch with him

And of course, this ain Armie wasn’t sure how he felt about that--or how Cannon would feel about it

But he did know Rissy shouldn’t be alone Not tonight, not to

A robbery and then a near enthis truck, he hustled over to Rissy’s car and opened the door "Here, letridiculous" Surly, she hitched her purse strap over her shoulder withyou, I’m fine"

Emphasis on the fine, and Ar that word, there was a problem "Oookay"

She took a step, and limped

Son of a bitch He felt so damned helpless, he wanted to howl "Okay, screw it"