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I felt a flush h me so powerfully it was hard to catch my breath for a moment

My gaze landed on the gun sitting right beside his hand on the dining room table

Without looking up from the paper in front of him, he said in a deep, low voice, “If you’re a coffee drinker, there’s soe on the paper “The pastries were just delivered and are in a box on the counter”

I didn’t aze slowly hs, h to cover the underneath

Although I was fully dressed, I couldn’t help but feel like I was totally nude in front of hiaze andmy way toward the kitchen I could sured noas as good a tiet a little caffeine fix

After I poured a cup, not bothering with sugar or s, I opened up the box and grabbed the first danish I could see I could still feel Arlo looking at aze

Although I had sowith the answers But then again, I wouldn’t know unless I asked

After I sed a bite of danish and washed it doith soranite counter and looked up at hi the paper, and froe—Eastern European if I had to guess by the letters

Although he didn’t have a noticeable accent, a few times I had heard a difference in the way he pronounced certain words “I didn’t realize you could get international papers in Desolation” Truth was, I didn’t know if you could or couldn’t get anything in this godforsaken city I hadn’t been here long enough, and it wasn’t as if I’d checked out the lay of the land

He leaned back in the chair, and I forced myself not to look at the way the olden skin flexed with that small movement

Arlo was a big man, broad shoulders, a wide chest, and a ridiculously defined abdoe point, a very outlined V of cutunderneath the lass and took a drink As soon as I sed too retted it

I sputtered and wiped ue burning because the coffee was so dahed a coupleain He still had his focus on htly, as if he thought it was ah

“Desolation can get anything you want, Lina” He lifted his coffee , slow drink as he watchedbicep Don’t watch the way it clenches and relaxes just fro

“Italian, Russian, Spanish Any language you want… anything you want, you can get for a price” He set his ers curled around the handle His other arm still rested over the back of the chair beside hi and relaxed, and God, he made it look sexy

Maybe I was suffering from some instantaneous Stockholm syndrome? But I knew that wasn’t true I’d felt this dark desire for hio Now that I was in his hoood,” I felt like I was losing my mind slowly

“Do you kno to fight?”

His question took uard, and I eyed him as I sed another bite of danish “I think?” I felt my face heat at the stupid words that just spilled from my mouth “Well, I’ve taken a couple self-defense classes and always carry pepper spray on me I can defend myself if needed” I wondered if he’d seen me in the alley after I doused the asshole in the face withoff