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And , I feel heat burnweird" I think I may have just topped Rick Cassidy in terms of sleaze Bravo, Cain "Maybe a little weird," I correct, having nothing better to say to offset the aardness

She sloalks over towoyood shape--even better shape than when I was eighteen and fighting But having Charlie’s gaze on one haywire It ht

She ducks her head, but I catch the adorable sain, andwith relief that I haven’t co up the black shirt that I had tucked into a bag for the rare ood?"

"Perfect Thanks" Our fingertips graze when she hands it tomy blood more I watch as she turns to walk to the kitchen, her perfect round ass swaying in those little shorts I need to get out of here before I explode in my pants

She bends over to pull a s h the sleeves and yank the shirt over my head

Charlie lets out a shriek and ju brush away, together with the bleach

"They like dark, daether

She nods and bites her botto her beautiful face as she allows her body to shudder once I grit ainst the tiny s, but because she finally reacted the way I’d expect her to Because I finally see an expression on her face that seeuarded and uncontrolled

Persuasive Cain is gone "You’re not staying in this apartht" I slide s Now" I can’t help the severity in my tone; it tends to escape in situations where I have to take control

Charlie turns to regard lare I wonder how she’ll react to ue "This is nonnegotiable If you want to work fornext door to a bunch of crackheads I don’t want you anywhere near that shit" I hit "call" onat ruff voice answers on the third ring "Tanner here"

Chapter ten

CHARLIE

"You drive a brand-new Sorento and you live in the sluer’s pretty face twists up in bewilderer side She cli lot, behind Cain Her hair is styled poker-straight and s all the way to her chin in multicolored stripes

"I inherited it" The lie slides off ave to Cain when he helped load s into the back I could tell by the blank stare that he ht not buy it, but he didn’t call me out

Thank God Sam didn’t send me here with another Volvo--this whole charade would be that ine a Volvo wouldn’t have lasted one night in the other apart lot The truth is I alet back to Saure I can get about twenty grand on its sale the second I’m ready to leave

My eyes roll over the white-stucco apart in front of us Despite the bars on the bottoh and wellfancy, but hopefully not a place where I have to worry about getting shot, standing in the ood job of hidingI carry a constant feeling of threat onfor me as it would be for someone else Either way, I didn’t want to appear vulnerable in front of ht of the situation while I iced the bump on his head