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The door to the rooled and Kara rushed forward as Blake walked in, and she let out a breath of relief He was still in jeans and a leather jacket He hadn’t left without her Kyle followed hi tension in the air

"What’s wrong?" Kara asked

Blake settled his hands on her ar"

"What? No I’"

"No, Kara--you aren’t" His hands came down on her shoulders, his brown eyes hard, deter ht At least, not head on A good agent--and she was a good agent--used smarts "If you do this--"

"You’ll hate me," he said "I’d rather you hate me alive than bury you like I did Whitney"

Like Whitney A part of her softened He cared about her He orried about her But she cared about hiuilt and fear He had to overcome it She had to make him She removed his hands from her shoulders "Do what you have to do, Blake"

His eyes narrowed "That was easy"

She glanced around him to Kyle, who had rubber cuffs in his hands "I knohen I’m beat And I don’t need to be cuffed I’ll stay" Kara leaned in and kissed Blake "And you stay alive, damn it"

He molded her closer and kissed her deeply, passionately, and she tasted the bitterness of his guilt and his fear "I will," he promised "For you, I will" He turned and left and Kara stared after hiuess that leaves you and uess it does, bubba," she said thinking how bad she was going to feel in a couple of ood friend to Blake

He grinned and sauntered into the roo a roory?"

"Yes I am" Kara sat down on the bed and kicked off one shoe and then carefully reotten from an FBI lab The same weapon she’d used to put Blake to sleep in Denver "Anything good on the lanced down and she pulled off the sticker that exposed the sleeping drug, careful not to touch her own skin "Looks good to me," he said "You want to take a look?"

"Sure, I…" She started to get up and feigned a craet him to the bed so he didn’t fall over and hit his head when she knocked him out "Oh, ah Stupid charlie horse" She rubbed her foot several seconds,a pained face "Okay Ouch That hurt I can’t walk Can you bringto his feet "I used to get those when I played football" He handed her the menu

Kara looked up at hirabbed his arainst his skin

His brows furrowed "Sorry for what?" And then his eyes rolled back in his head

Kara ju body so that it fell back on the uilt She quickly put her shoes back on, grabbed her purse, and headed for the door