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He wouldn’t allow it

He’d waited too long, fought for too long And he wouldn’t be cheated of it now that the end was so near

His sanity depended on keeping the vow he had o

He knew the general area where they were, and he’d given this woet there before he did, but, he would be close, and he would be watching And once she found the prey, he would be there to steal it from her If he reirls would be very well hidden Very well protected

Perhaps even sharing his bed

He had to force back a roar of rage as he focused on the woain Focused on what he knew rather than what he suspected

He knew once Commander Justice arrived, Justice would be distracted by the past that would haunt him there in the form of the family his birth mother had been taken from

The same family that had aided Judd and Fawn after Gideon had disappeared into the darkness on the night of their escape

Terran Martinez had arrived, just as Judd had said he would An arrangement Scott Connelly appeared to have been a part of Because Faas his daughter

His teeth clenched as a growl escaped before he could bite it back He wouldn’t accept that He couldn’t accept it

He frowned and glared through the scope as the woman arched her brow imperiously

Oh yes, she kneas there Watching Waiting She wasn’t daring hi him to take what they were both after

“Good night” Did she speak the words or simply allow her lips to form the shape of them?

Regardless, she rose from the chair and strode to the curtains, which she pulled closed with a jerk, shutting out his view of her and leaving nothing to chance She tucked the bottoes of the curtains into thefraet her, then turned off the lights to the room

Gideon sighed at the loss There were times in the past three days as he followed her, that he hadn’t felt so alon