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"Listen here, buddy You’re no Brad Pitt" Sto across the room, she ripped the blanket back fro funny"

"I’ll try to contain ht and settled down into ht with her pillow until she had molded it into a shape that suited her She was on her side facing me I could just make out her features in the dark and smell the shampoo she had used in the shower It had been years since I had slept in the same bed as soet up and kill

"Owen?" Her whisper drewme" I could barely make out her words as weariness claimed her

"You’re welcoled closer to the heat next to runted in annoyance The warlight that poured in around the curtains, Owen rolled into me

"What the--?" I started to push him away, but his hands closed ontioosebus rested between mine and everya bedmate "I’m not used to it"

"Wh-why is that?" His lips were so close toelse Flashes of our kiss froh my mind

"Trust" He leaned a little closer, his lips alht kill you"

"That would be difficult" I lickedheart

"But not with you, love" He let go of one ofto kill me in my sleep"

"How can you be so sure?"

"It’s in your eyes" His eyes dipped down to my lips "The eyes never lie"

I waited for his kiss, waited for the heat that his fingertips pro he rolled off of rab breakfast?" He stretched without turning to look atwhat had happened I hadn’t been far froe s

"Sure" I ran a hand throughto hit the shower and then we can head out I saw a place to get so and went straight to the bathroo toand found a pair of jeans that looked like they would fit He had guessed my size better than I’d expected "Talk about a let-down All hot and bothered with nothing to show for it Big bad assassin Ha" I slid the pants up and traded my Prince Harry shirt for a black one It was loose on h that I worried about the cleavage it exposed I wondered if he’d chosen it that way on purpose "Apparently my eyes didn’t say it all, huh?"

I picked upthe sweater from yesterday over my clothes Hopefully it wouldn’t be too hot today I needed soht with it made me shudder An American with no passport, wanted for vehicular hoo well forhomemade tats for protection

By the tis of stuff Owen had bought He had odd shopping habits Then again I wasn’t an assassin, soduct tape Maybe it was for so soe When the door opened I threw the silver stuff back in the bag and sat down in a chair He was shirtless and his pants were slung low on his hips, revealing those indentions that h of that" He nodded "You’d be amazed what you can do with it"

"Mreedabout the duct tape Right I hoped he couldn’t see how flushed

"I saw a guy on TV make a cup out of it once A survival shohere he could only take one thing with him, and that’s what he chose" I restedto snap myself out of the inconvenient attraction I felt "Never really thought I’d need to kno to do that, but who kno?"

"If you need a cup " Owen pulled a shirt over his head, and I i froh ht back with hiht you’d prefer so now"

"Will it be easier to conceal?" I stood up and pulled the gun from my pants