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The next day was uys didn’t findwould It was hard to keeprooed all of the food in the kitchen Owen didn’t want ht Owen staring at his phone No one had called him back the entire time we’d been here Instead he spent his ti the news and who knehat

I suppose I should be glad that he was staying busy With all of this ti ould happen And the more time I spent around thesexy in the way he offered to do things forti co for etelse

Tessa I sat down in a chair facing the front s

I orried about my friend What if they had found her and planned to hurt her if I didn’t go to the her stay soet his bloody car out of impound?

I needed to talk to her Reach out and make sure she was okay in so to take a shower" Owen stood up and stretched With quick movements he undid the buttons of his shirt and I couldn’t tear ers as they worked When he finished he threw it on the back of the couch with his discarded tie I could feel his gaze on me the entire time, but couldn’t find it in myself to be embarrassed The man was delicious and he knew it I looked up into his darkened eyes and conte to scrub his back

"Okay" The word exited h to follow through with my little fantasy

"Do you want one?" He raised an eyebrow and my pulse quickened

"Want a shower?" Dao before e" He so ahead" Yep That was definitely disappointment in my voice

"I’ll be quick" As he walked away, he pulled his undershirt off over his head and tossed it on the couch The e to ju soap run over his skin made me want to…

I shot out of my chair and paced back and forth I needed a distraction I needed to get a grip My eyes fell on his laptop and I stopped in my tracks

I needed to contact Tess

I heard the water in the bathroom come on and I tiptoed across the room to listen at the door Once I was sure I could I could hear hi I ran across the room and lifted the lid to his laptop It was password locked Da the lid, I made sure it was in the same spot he had left it and looked around the room His phone was still on the table so I picked it up and s the internet with it and it hadn’t shut down all the way Quickly I flipped through his apps and signed into an old email address of mine

How could I let her know she was in trouble in a way that wouldn’t let others knoas me? In the subject line I kept it simple An old nickna but grumpy, but it drove her crazy when people called her that In the end our friends had all ended up with a nicknarats Heard you got married and ran away to Italy If I was you I’d stay there for a really long time Leave the trouble of the city behind and enjoy the peace and quiet

Speaking of peace and quiet I’ve gone to visit the country Met a friend and he’s helping me find a place to stay

All ned out quickly, then went back and in didn’t pop up when you reopened the app I set the phone back on the table trying to h I had finally acco, I decided to reward myself with some food

The soup fro ht of soup I’d probably never eat the stuff again There were canned beans, vegetables, and some kind of tinned meat that scared me I did find some crackers and a can of beef stew It would probably taste like dog food, but at this point I wasn’t going to be too picky I picked up the can opener fro on the beef stew

So moved out back by a shed and I froze It was dark out, but I could have sworn I saw a person I ducked out of sight of theand tried to catch my breath A moment later I peeked back around the cabinets but couldn’t see anything Taking a deep breath I walked into the living room with my can and can opener still clutched in my hands I tiptoed across the carpet and lifted one of the blinds with a finger The crunch of gravel drew htsits way toward the house

I jerked back around and dove for the chair whereI threw the beef stew on the couch and wrappedwithout thought, so in Every cell practically screamed, "Don’t die! Don’t die!" I sort of floated to the bathrooround One un and the next I was pressed against the wooden door Not sure if anyone was listening to as going on in the house, I rapped gently with my knuckles