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“I stuck that joint into a spot it didn’t fit, and that s shift” I pop onna dig us out You want to sit down, get the lantern up and running again, and you can watch me?”

“I lied!”

“What?”

She lifts her head, her face a twisted mess “I lied about the tracker No one knohere we are!”

I let out a slow breath “I knew that”

“You did?”

“There’s no GPS out here, Siren”

She covers her face again, shaking her head Then she looks up atstuck in here with you” Her voice cracks on the word, and I feel sohten at the base of my throat

“Fuck” I blow a breath out “I’ht? Look—I knoas I’ht, I was an ass Nothing to do with you, just bullshit you walked in on That shit’s over now, though Asshole’s not my normal MO, like I said, and even if it was, you andcave What’s good for you is good for me We need each other”

Finley frowns up at me

I give her a panty-htly at the corners “Don’t believe me, do you?”

“I’ll believe it when I see it” She sighs

“You don’t think I can be a nice guy?” I sain—c’mon, sweetheart—and she looks down at her feet

“Nothing points to that fact, no” Her shoulders rise and sharply fall “At any rate, I don’t care that you’re nice, as long as you can dig”

I laugh, despite the blood that’s stinging ht?”