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Trying to believe, hoping like crazy it was true, she flexed her fingers on the leather around Castillo’s waist and tried to relax

She al back roads between forests, fields and vineyards Did he think so really in the middle of nowhere?

She still wasn’t sure when he turned onto a dirt paththe Harley back to a dull roar

He wove down a path so narrow a car wouldn’t fit Sun winked between tall trees, the tires kicking up pine needles and the exhaust ruffling the bushes

It’d be a great place to bury a body

Lara seriously hoped she hadn’t pissed him off that much

Then he ca

Her nerves dissipated

Her mouth dropped

It was like being suffused with a hefty shot of mellow Every muscle relaxed and Lara smiled

There, at the far end of the clearing, was the cutest cabin So darling she expected a little girl in a red cape to coh the trees

Castillo stopped, turned off the o of his waist and leaned back far enough that plenty of air fit between their bodies He didn’t have to shake her off twice, she sniffed

He pulled his phone out, angling it so she couldn’t see what he was doing As if she was so nosy she’d try and read over his shoulder? Lara rolled her eyes, wondering if he’d gotten any medals for his paranoia

Then she wrinkled her nose, re that he’d been spot-on with his last paranoid warning She looked toward the trees so she wouldn’t catch sight of what he was doing Just in case

Eventually—one, tenty minutes or so later—he tucked the phone into his pocket He kicked the stand down, then swung his leg over the seat to dis that it was, it only shifted a little with Lara still perched on the back

He pulled so else out of his pocket

A cool nal that’d open a secret cave in the trees?

When he aiht above the door go out

Security system?

Okay, it was still cool

She glanced at Castillo to coht her breath