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“Around one”

He stood up abruptly and ere so close He put a hand on the side of my neck and bent down and pressed a kiss to my surprised mouth

“Meet ates I ht there from here, you should be okay in that part of town—even that late”

I wanted to spend the night with him, wanted to feel that return to ht I nodded silently and his chin bu the curve of my bottom lip

“I don’t have a ‘ht, Bry So you need to keep yourself safe, all right?”

I nodded again and he took a step away from me

“Race” Those green eyes flared at rin played across his mouth “You keep yourself safe too” I felt like so him that while he went off to do God only knehat

So that made a shiver work across the surface of my skin

“Suddenlysure everyone is safe seems like more of a priority than it was the other day”

He gaveafter him with a breathless anticipation that felt so nice, but also left me with a fair a into

I ended up with a late table of rowdy guys, so I wasn’t able to have Ramon walk me out of the restaurant until almost one thirty I was tired but s as I went to the car No one jumped out of any shadows No car tried to run me down, and when Ramon sent me on my ith a little kiss on the cheek and a wink, I actually felt pretty good about things