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"He’ll come after you?"

"You have no idea--"

A text chirimace, I read it

Get your ass back here or I hip it raw

"Shit, Jess! He knows I’ to assu otten myself into this monumental mess? This had all started because I’d wanted to find ical parents Both were dead, and noas saddled with a fortune that was still in the rinse cycle--along with a lying, stalker ex-boyfriend, who also happened to be an assassin

Fuck!

"You’ve got a good head start on hiot to be security everywhere"

"If I can get away now, do you think we could hide out at your parents’ lake cabin for a couple of weeks?" Months? Years?

"Hide out? Nat, what did he do to you?!" She sounded on the verge of skull-fucking so But he isn’t who I thought he was"

"Skeletons in the closet?"

"Boneyard And I still don’t know the half of it He told me he had no fa-shot politician And their faht you said Sevastyan was a street kid"

"That’s what he led ine my shock Jess, I didn’t even know his real nao I’ll make Jell-O shots for our trip, pick you up at the airport, and then we’re off Quick question of no particular i ht I’dwatched; I had that feeling again

Wary, I surveyed the terminal--

Sevastyan! He was here, on the other side of the security checkpoint, charging throughto behold, with his powerful body and deterolden eyes swept the area Because he was hunting

For o Fucker’s here" Click How had he found azes met Confusion flashed over his face As if he truly had no idea why I’d left?

Too bad, Sevastyan, I a line at security What were the odds that he’d already bought a ticket--and lost his ever-present pistol?

His confusion was turning to fury His body language said he would ot between hi Don’t you dare run