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Da to hell

At half past eight, I made uard

His bodyguard didn’t wave back

He tilted up the shaker bottle he had in his hand and drank heartily fro Like snotthat swirled brown

His eyes made me feel weird, too They were always on

Like the way there were bags under my eyes

“Get a good look last night?”

My face flushed

Luckily, I didn’t havethe scuffle—or ht, I’d dropped it between the bed and the headboard while thinking about Rhys’ reaction to as on the television

Then, this otten out of bed to look for it only to realize it wasn’t where I’d put it After a short search, I’d found it…but hadn’t been able to reach it

To get it back out, I’d have to have so as I headed over to Rhys’ place an hour earlier than I usually did

Ignoring the bodyguard, I knocked on Rhys’ door, gave it ten seconds, then let myself inside

My eyes scanned the roohout the small space

“Rhys?”

It always confused me when I came in here I mean, if a , was living here…there had to be a reason

I mean, we had the police commissioner on the opposite side of the street from us On the other side, there was a district attorney, and the other was an eency room nurse

Behind us was a couple of doctors, but they were so young that it was a surprise that they were able to get atheir doctorates

Seriously, this was a ure out why he was here He could live anywhere

Yet, he chose here In a duplex, in the view

“Rhys?” I called out again

Though, I honestly didn’t knohy

He ht’ve already answered and I wouldn’t even know it

I rounded the final corner to his spare bedroo into his bedroom without his consent—when I ran into a hot, sweaty chest

I hit hi to his belly to steady myself

“Sorry, sorry,” I apologized

Then I got distracted by his body His chest, and his abs

He had a cross tattoo in thea rosary, the cross of the rosary would be almost identical to the placement of the tattoo

Then there was the crow on his side, and it always see me

And God, he earing gray knit pants—my favorite pair

Why were they ot hot and sweaty