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"Oh, you drooled I have the wet spot on my chest to prove it" He sat up and wiped at one well-forht have been distracted by his chest

Shakingbefore that?" Thirty minutes wasn’t so bad

"Well, I think we spent about an hour together before you fell asleep?" He raised his shoulder in question "I don’t kno long you were gone before you found me" He picked up lad you found me"

His smile was so carefree and boyish thatdo you nor for?" He put his shorts back on before pulling his shirt over his head

"An hour Maybe two But I always let the to be a while" I frowned as I replacedthat habit They’re probably looking for me already"

"You don’t ever just take off and spend time by yourself?" He frowned and sat back down on the rock he had been fishing from and watchedthe circumference of the property? No I have to let theed "I’ve never really thought about it before now Ifor me pretty quickly"

"Do you worry about that a lot? Iyou really have to think about?" His face grew hard "People threaten you?"

"Whoa, cowboy" I couldn’t help but smile at his protective tone "I’ that was a real issue It’s mainly a precaution"

"Saht they were honey somewhere secret, but I saw pictures of the"

"It’s part of life for us" I shrugged I hated that their honeymoon had been crashed by the media, but there wasn’t much we could do about it We had all known it was likely to happen at soer

"I don’t like it" He looked out over the water

"Don’t like what?"

"Having people I care about stalked" He looked back at me and my heart thudded in my chest Did heto Saerous jobs" I sat down next to him and bumped his shoulder with mine "It’s not like we’re police officers or part of theelse And just because of the family ere born into"

"This world, this way of life, is so far froers with mine "I would disappear on our property for an entire day Hunting, fishing, or just exploring No one would coot older, probably not even then"

"That’s such a foreign thought, but it sounds lovely" I looked at our hands, noticing all of the differences His hands were tanned, with calluses and cracked knuckles; mine were pale and soft "But if you think about it, a lot of that has to do here you grew up You wouldn’t let your kid run off in New York City for an entire day without worrying And I bet your mom worried about you anyways"