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"Reyes, uncuff me"

He bit down and turned away "I couldn’t be responsible foryou to be"

"But they’ll be here any second," he said, regret edging his voice

"What?" I asked, surprised "Who?"

He stood and ruain "I apparently nized me, probably called the cops the minute alked out"

My mouth fell open "Why didn’t you tell ood"

"I can’t believe I didn’t pick up on that" Then I found out why he needed the duct tape "Wait!" I said as he readied the tape "How did you text me from my sister’s number?"

"I didn’t," he said with a grin, and before I could say anything else, I had duct tape covering part of , then took ht on the tape When he was finished--and I was breathless--he looked intoto hurt"

What? I thought, half a second before I saw stars and the world darkened around me

10

The police never find it as funny as you do

--T-SHIRT

Moments after I’d been clocked by the ry White Chick, the world caeance A SWAT teah the door, rifles at their shoulders as they swept the room One of theood and partly because that was all I could do

Reyes hitirl and I’d be coirl, and he damned well knew it I’d just have to hit hihteen-wheeler

"Are you okay?" SWAT guy asked, studying my eye

Damn, I loved it when men in uniform studied my eyes Or my ass Either way I nodded as he slowly peeled the tape off He secured it onto a piece of plastic and sealed it in an evidence bag as a detective and two patrole With the help of one of the patrolmen, the officer unlocked the cuffs and helped hted it

"Would you like soood, thank you"

"I think we should arrest her"

Startled, I looked up at the patroluy who tried to kill-and-or-horribly-h school with his dad’s SUV Well, this sucked ass He hated uts He even hated the cavity encapsulatingcalled?