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"What?" She recoils

"Do you have so you need me to protect?" I ask

She’s lost and that’s s I work for the club protecting seerous So that’s why you brought up thefor you"

She blinks A lot I fight to prevent fro she’ll feel so bad for calling me a crook that the next tiht up the twenty dollars? Were you trying to hire ht up the twenty dollars? And things were going so well As in I no longer thought Tho to kidnap eht he was three seconds froht if I told him what I had, the experience would be less painful

Literally

My phone vibrates It’s my mother and I can hear her weary voice in the written words Sorry¸ Bre I could ht your dad picked you up and he thought I got you and both of us were hoht you were upstairs Your dad left to pick up Zac and I let Joshua take et you now

Liam My fate rests in the hands of rape For the love of God, he got a Froot Loop stuck up his nose this roan Loudly So loud that when I raise rown a unicorn horn

That’s it I’ to die a horrible death I’m alone with a biker who has a patch that indicates he carries deadly weapons and he already adun He’ll probably recordto the rest of the world not to mess with hi him about"Hey, Mr Biker Guy, I was totally offering it as payment so you won’t kill ssemi loadsas a job "Yes!"

His forehead furrows "What’s a yes?"

I bounce onto die! Muppet ar you twenty dollars because I was going to hire you"

He laughs It’s more of a chuckle, but it’s a fantastic sound and it’s a beautiful sight on an already gorgeous face My heart flutters for a h wanes, he narrows his frozen blue eyes on me My happy moment fades, andme for?"

I sweep my hair away from my face and steal a peek at the rest of histheuard?" he repeats while crossing his ar it, but I’ll try to sell it "I knew you protected stuff"

"You did?"

I didn’t "Totally, and when Addison had to leave, I was going to walk over to you and ask if I could pay you to stick around until my ride showed, but you" Scaredto say"

He works his jaw andcan itated, but in order to know I’d need a baseline of behavior to coht?" He interrupts the weird flow of inforainst the wall and he reel I was obsessed with theel book in our town’s library--both voluuy, he’s definitely beautiful enough to be a heavenly creature and he’s also deadly enough to wield a sword, but I’hteousness

"If I agree to be your bodyguard," he says, "you’ll oweway more than what I said "Then I accept"

Thomas holds out his hand to me and I stare at his offered open palm, then meet those cold eyes I can do this and then all will be okay I lift my arm and inch my hand closer to his

"So we’re clear" He stopsThe heat fro as I’to escape this situation It’sthe inside of my head, it’s also the fine hairs on the back of erous Like the fallen angel Lucifer must have been This could be the equivalent of a handshake with the devil

I’will be teht that will feel so unreal I’ll wonder if it happened at all

My hand slides into his and his fingers close around rip One I couldn’t slip from if I wanted He doesn’t shake our joined hands Instead, he steps closer and lowers his head so that we’re eye to eye "When a brother of the Reign of Terror makes a promise, we don’t break it, and we expect the same from those we do business with Which means you can’t walk from this deal without consequences"