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Thor

He’d followed ain

And, I had on good authority, he likely didn’t like that I was talking to soht now

I narrowedcloser to Porn Guy Laric

“Who is that?”

I startled, surprised to hear that voice so close to me

I turn, and ht there next to his

“Uht It’s hard to breathe “That’s…”

Thedecision

I knew, deep down in the bottom of my heart, that Thor couldn’t handle the touch

Because, the th ofinto his

That’s when all hell broke loose

• • •

LARIC

I touched her hip, unable to stop htly “Who is that?”

Just as the last syllable in ‘that’ leaves s exploded

The ot out

One second we’re standing, and the next there’s a gun pointed at us

I reacted like I’d been trained to do and fell backward, taking her with me

But it wasn’t fast enough

She cried out as the gunfire started pinging against her stupid pink car

Thud Thud Thud Thud

Whatever he had is silenced

It’s loud, but not loud enough to be able to pinpoint what it is precisely unless you’ve heard so like it before

I’d heard it a lot

So, apparently, had Zach

Because the moment that the sound started to per my name

Soan to seep into ht of the woman on top of me was bad

She’s hit

I looked up from behind the pinkathi was very, very wrong

We make eye contact from across the space, and the bullets stall

Magazine trade out

I know that I have ten seconds max

Ten

CHAPTER 4

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