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“Thanks” She curled her hand around the inside of e of her lashes

“It had to be done” I started across the parking lot not caring that she had to scrae of her nails intome to look down at her

“Re at it and we’ve only been out in public for an hour”

I sighed and slowed my steps to match her shorter ones I put a hand over where hers were resting and forced a grin acrossout in the open makes me nervous and I didn’t hear you co that it’s odd Bax hasn’t shown up de at me I can’t afford to be distracted and you can’t afford for me to be distracted either”

“You’re only human, Titus There is only so much you can do and only so much you can take responsibility for”

I stopped by the GTO and reached around her to open the door “Isn’t that what I tried to tell you last night?”

She slid pastall the way across mine I had to suck in a breath when she stopped with the tips of our noses al

“You’re trying to save everyone, I just wanted to save the one person that mattered to me It’s different”

She slid into the passenger seat and I handed over the bags full of her purchases so she could throw them in the backseat I didn’t have an answer to that, so I went around the car and wheeled us out of the parking lot and back toward the city so we could hit up Spanky’s

“What reason are we going to give for being at a strip club? You don’t really strikein order to see naked women”

She would be surprised I hadn’t seen a naked woer than I cared to think about, and I definitely didn’t keep my eyes closed anytime I ventured into Spanky’s for work

“I’irl-on-the-dock case He’ll let us in without asking too many questions”

Chuck was the head of Nassir’s security He was a holdover froe and a gun intienerally didn’t have to butt heads I knew that wouldn’t be the case if any of the charges I had thrown at the club over the years had ed to stick Chuck was loyal to a fault and Nassir ly

“Okay So what am I supposed to do while you talk to Nassir? Believe it or not, I’ve never actually been in a strip club”

“We just need to walk in acting like we can’t get enough of each other Nassir and whoever elseneeds to think I can’t stand to be away from you for even a second Hold my hand, keep up with the little touches and junk Just look at ly and sell it I bet Roark has eyes everywhere, so soet the news back to him”

She lifted an eyebrow at ly Gotcha”