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“Good boy,” Rick said “Now, you’re going to go to Westbrook and to Ivan, and you tell the to finish what he started!”

Mia rushed into the bedroo there She’d heard him arrive, and had been with Martha and Reese at the ti there in his suit and just looking like hi her arms around his neck

“You’re back” He held her tightly, hisin his arms wrapped around her “I was so worried”

“I’ shot”

She pulled away, and he cupped her cheek, staring into her eyes Mia stared into his brown ones, and then she looked at his neck, and at his shirt “You’re covered in blood”

“We didn’t kill those girls”

“I know They, erm, they showed the bodies once I think they’ve stopped showing thee that had been done” She frowned “There was a woo She had the same marks and stuff She was dumped in a park near where I lived I told the lawyer, and Lewis, all of this information I hope it can help”

“I can’t keep this shit fros that is related to my life, it’s fucked up I’ve run myself a bath”

“I can sit with you Let me knohen you’re decent” She was just so happy to have him back The past couple of days had been the hardest of her life She had found herself waking in thehis presence He didn’t know that she’d caught hi her sleep So him

When it cas she had believed were dead She would stand in the shoashing her body, and she’d touch her shoulder or her storazed, and she’d feel a stirring, a tingle that awakened her entire body, ain

She waited for his call, and it caht sight of his naked body She had known his was a large,as he actually was His shoulders were large, thick, and there were several tattoos up and down his arms Her mouth went dry

Feeling like ahis naked chest, she forced herself to take a seat Rubbing her hands together, she smiled

“You like what you see?” he asked

Her cheeks heated “Please, don’t”

“It’s nice to know that you like what you see” He winked at her “I certainly love what I see Love it when you wear jeans”