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“Is there even anything to eat here?” Kelli grumbled as she looked around the room with curious eyes

The upper floor was co room, but downstairs there were two bedrooe-staeneration of Hannigans had cleaned and cut up whatever gaht

There was a drain in theupside down and the blood could easily flow out of it The roohly it was cleaned, always sed to , and so to the deer and elk that he and his brothers had killed

“There should still be sorabbed her around the waist and pulled her in close “Go shower, babe I’ll find us so to eat and make some coffee”

Soave me a seous assets that got her good tips at Paradise City “Thanks, babe”

I slapped her on the ass and pushed her in the direction of the stairs As she walked away, I just stood there, watching her leaveall day, that I had been stressed and tired and pissed at the entire world She was like a robot at tiht it was just a mask she put on to keep the rest of the world out

Noondered if she was a sociopath

I heard the water turn on downstairs and then went back down to ht Coffee was the biggest necessity since I knew the pantry was still well stocked after the last time I’d been up here with some of the brothers I found a few cans of beef stew in the pantry that still had a few months before it went bad I put it

on the stove to simmer while I made the coffee

I was putting our dinner in bohen Kelli returned, her hair wrapped in a thin white towel and dressed in one ofher bare legs up under her and showingpanties For the first ti her, ht of her sexy little scrap of underwear I had turned off allto happen next, what I had to do It would make this easier I couldn’t let myself soften where she was concerned Too much was at risk if I fucked this up

I set her bowl andthe chair on the other side of the table She drank her coffee in silence for a fewto eat it I keptto let the events of the day overpower me I could think about Tanner and Warden later, when I had Kelli under lock and key

Her phone buzzed, surprising us both Service out here wasn’t the best I had put a booster on et texts just in case Quinn or Bash needed me

I lifteddown at the screen of her phone “Problems?”

She blinked her eyes a few ti unable to focus onto slur, and I pushed ain, her brow puckering in confusion “Jusssh”

“Just what?” I asked with both brows lifted