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"I don’t want to stay here"

"I know And I wouldn’t ask you to, not under these circumstances, if I didn’t really feel like it was i et there I want to know you’ve seen my father with your oo eyes and that he’s really okay"

"I will" He leaned in and kissed her, and his gut clenched He hesitated, knowing this was the wrong ti to find out about his deal with her father tonight, he just knew it, and she was going to hate hi sounded froo" He kissed her again and took off for the other roo hi roo her arms in her red silk robe, only to come face to face with Blake He stood by the couch, fully dressed, his long hair wild and loose around his shoulders, his eyes blurry with barely escaped sleep

They stared at each other several beats, before he said, "Not the best circuet to know each other, but I’ve always found the best way to get past niceties and aard shit is food" He e with hed, surprised and relieved at how easily he’d torn away the tension "There’s leftover pizza but I get the cheese slices"

He grinned, his brown eyes friendly, warm "Deal"

A fewcold pizza and drinking soda, both of the on the table "How’s your ar to scar but I can live with that" She dropped a piece of crust into the box "Do you think the same person set the fire?"

"Yes" He sucked down sos, I see"

"Nope" He reached for another slice of pizza

"Aren’t you ATF or ex-ATF? Shouldn’t you be at the fire?"

"I don’t know the people involved the way Royce and Luke do"

"You mean my father"

"And the suspects"

"What suspects" Her stomach fell to her feet "You mean you think this involves me, don’t you?"

He moved the empty pizza box "Don’t you?"

She sed hard "I I didn’t knoe thought the fire was intentional"