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Royce followed her, leaning on the door fraht when he’d driven her to the doctor’s office, rather than hoer had faded, she felt hi, and it felt like a relationship It felt right

She abandoned her drawer and sat down on the bed "I’m sorry I was such a witch earlier "I just "

"Don’t move, Lauren," Royce ordered sharply "Don’t even breath" He reached for his gun

"What?" Lauren whispered urgently "What’s happening?"

"I’ to explain but do not, I repeat, do not react Don’tin on her, one slow step at a time

"Yes Okay Tell me!"

"There’s a snake on your bed"

Royce stopped in front of Lauren, but he didn’t look at her He kept his eye on the snake, knowing it could easily be as deadly as it was unexpected "Get ready to run When I say to run, you get out of the apartment in case there are more snakes"

"Yes yes, okay"

"I’ll count to three One Two Three" He shoved her aside and fired at the snake, but as he suspected, it rabbed a handful of the comforter and threw it over the snake and then fired over and over He reloaded and yanked the comforter back, ready to fire, but thankfully, he didn’t have to There was a pile of dead snake in the bed

"Lauren," he called, turning to find her standing in the doorway "I told you to get out of here" He grabbed her and started walking towards the door, getting her the hell out of here, all but dragging her to the hallway "Are you trying to get yourself killed today?"

She held up her phone "I was afraid you’d get bitten and seconds could ht be Mr FBI, Royce Walker, but you can die just like the rest of us"

He stared at her a er For the second ti he’d ever experienced with a woman and he liked how that felt

He kissed her fast and hard on the lips "Damn, I’m crazy about you, woman Stay here, and since you often reinterpret my words to your own definition, that ht stopped him dead in his tracks

He scrubbed his face and considered aLuke "Someone left Lauren a snake for a present I need someone over here to rumbled "Is it poisonous?"