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"Owen! There’s so when he didn’t answer right away "Owen! Damn it! Answer the door!"

The bathroom door opened and I practically fell into his wet arle of damp skin that I shouldn’t have even noticed The shoas still running, but he’d taken the time to wrap a towel around his waist I looked up at hi from his hair onto my face

"There’s someone here!" I whispered as I stood up and pointed to the front door "And in the back!" I swung my arm behind me

Without a word he turned around and dropped the towel My mouth fell open at the view and I felt rab his underwear The ht shorts up and I wondered why all men didn’t wear those

Probably because they wouldn’t all look like Owen in therabbedwith him He opened the closet and punched a hole into the plaster in the back He ree rifle I leaned against the wall and tried to listen for anything happening outside

"Grab me some pants" He nodded to the dresser and I opened the middle drawer and shoved the clothes around I found a pair of slacks and a shirt and threw the around the roo to run around in the stupid heels I had worn earlier Owen checked the rifle before tossing it to me

"Heads up You said you were better with a rifle"

"I said I had shot theht it and checked the slide before slipping the sling over my shoulder I wasn’t bad, but I wasn’t aperson or while running for ht to practice that type of stuff instead of just shooting at empty cans

"Let’s hope you’re better than you think" He smiled at me as he pulled his pants up and slid the shirt over his head Light danced across his eyes and a wild excite to do? Is it the sa the wall to peer out the side of the blinds "Can’t tell Different car" He slid his feet into some shoes by the bedroom door and stepped close to o wide I was growinginto his stride

"To er to tilt my chin up I opened my mouth to respond but he didn’t wait formine in a kiss The heat from his body next to mine made my head spin and the soft touch of his mouth enticed me more than any other er to our lives forgotten His touch was like electricity that ran over ue slipped across asped in shocked pleasure When he pulled back he smiled at my dazed expression "For luck"

I sed and tried to catchover his shoulder and laced his fingersroo behind him and tried to keepinfrom the people outside Owen held up his hand and I frozeto the kitchen counter, he motioned for me to move I scuttle-walked to the side of the back door

I could hear the soft scratching of metal on metal as the door knob twisted slowly One man entered, followed quickly and quietly by another as they slipped into the kitchen They earing noruns I flattened against the cabinet I was leaning against, but one of the out and the ainst hts in the house went out There was a grunt and the sound of flesh hitting flesh, but I couldn’t tell as beating who

When fingers closed around my wrist I jerked backward and almost fell over the dead man

"It’s me" Owen pulled me to the door and hit a switch on the way out The front yard was suddenly bathed in bright strobe lights that blinked in and out every couple of seconds Shouts caunshots, but Owen didn’t stop We reached the shed in the back and ducked in through a small door on the side

"Drive or shoot?"

I looked at him like he was crazy Both were bad options for me

"Okay You drive Do exactly what I say" He pushed o out the front way"

"Okay" I unslung the rifle and clinition and I prayed it would start Owen undid the latch on the barn style doors before the truck and ran back to the passenger side

As soon as he was in I turned the key and hit the gas The truck came to life immediately and I said a silent prayer of thanks I shifted into drive and slah the doors in an angry crash and I aluns pointed at us You’d think with my record they would have made sure to not be in o down, but was too busy trying to drive to keep up with it all

"This is going to be loud" Reaching into his bag he ca his n, he hurled them at the two cars in front of his house Explosions rocked the clearing, but I kept us steady as the truck tore down the gravel path