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He opened his ave him a stern look

"It’s like those people that are okay with eating beef and Thanksgiving turkey as long as they don’t actually have to kill, skin, de-feather, or whatever the hell you do to prepare an ani rid of all these horrible people so everyone else could eat their turkey You deserve to have some turkey, too"

His lips treh

"I’ this very well" Heat filledto convince you to be happy, but I can’t make you You have to decide to be happy I read that in a book, but it’s true You’re a fucking assassin, Owen! You don’t follow the rules and that works for you You take what you want, what you need"

I cla one liners fro naked on his lap

His face turned serious and I felt land, love" He trailed a finger down the side of my cheek

"You knohat I meant" I narrowed limmer appeared in his eyes

"Okay, I wasn’t " He leaned forward and kissedthat made sense"

"I did?" My voice was breathless as he kissed one cheek and then the other

"Yes, ht that had settled in my stomach

"You reminded me that I’m an assassin" He wrapped his ar assassin I’ve always had my own code of ethics I do what I think is necessary Even when thati valuable" He kissedI needed"

I took a deep breath, trying to focus on what he was saying

"I’ve been fighting what I wanted, what I needed I wasn’t strong enough though That wasn’t working for me" In a quick move he rolled oing to fight it any you fro "That’s good, because you didn’t really have a choice"

"I’"

"What’s that?" I brushed his hair out of his eyes

"I love you" The aht tears toup at hi My body felt alive and my soul felt full Full in a way that I hadn’t experienced in a long time