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He waited patiently for her to open her apartment door and deactivate her alarm with the code and her thumbprint The double locks on the solid steel door molded to look like a classic paneled wood door undid with asnickShe pushed the door open and led him inside

“I like the security here”

She laughed Soot the impression that, like her father, Sandor considered the security at the Denver Mint no more than routine “I picked out the apart to help Dadat hoave me a security systeift”

“I have used that firood”

“I’ll say and the installation expert was to-die-for gorgeous”

“Was he?” Sandor asked in a rough voice

“Totally delicious” She licked her lips “But too short for me He came all the way from the head office in Sicily Dad demanded the best”

“I enes somewhere, hmmm?”

She eyed his six-foot-four fraot from your father”

Sandor frowned, but he didn’t deny it Considering the fact that his mother was barely over five feet, maybe he couldn’t

“We all inherit things fros,” she said as she led hiot my dad’s stubbornness Just ask him”

Sandor waited until she sat down on the bright yellow leather retro sofa before settling right beside her “I have no need, having seen ample evidence of it myself”

She laughed again, loving just being there with Sandor at that moment in time She kicked off her sandals and curled her feet under her, turning her body slightly so she faced him

He wasn’t s at her like he was trying to piece together what e’s need to protect you”

“I love hihed “And I understand that as the sole heir to a ood candidate for a kidnapping”

“Yet you insist on living alone”