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His eyes were speaking for him loud and clear

Caleb slid off the bed and dropped to his knees in front of me His hands came up to clasp the sides of my face I expected hihis own seerly drank every drop of the salty, bitter fluid that he fed me I reached down and covered his ass withainst one another as Caleb wrapped his arms around my neck

“Thank you,” he whispered against ainstto me

An unpleasant sensation went through ure out what it was

Fear

But fear of what?

Losing Caleb?

Keeping him?

I wanted to laugh as the answer became obvious to me

Both

Chapter 14

Caleb

“We don’t have to do this,” I said as I followed Jace down the dimly lit sidewalk “I’m sorry I blew up at you like that”

I felt one off on Jace that veryjackass after he’d refused to let o ashore with him to the local convenience store that also had a s confined to the boat for nearly teeks and Jace’s distant attitude, I’d been at e in nize me in the few minutes it took to toss our clothes into one of the half-dozen washing machines, Jace had calmly reminded me it wasn’t safe

An argument that had held little water with me, since there was still no evidence that I’d been linked to the shooting outside Richard Jennings’ house