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Bianca unwound herself fros over to the shelf where the cell phone was resting

LEXIE: BE READY ELISA AND MARKO CAME UP WITH A BEAUTY

Picking it up, she pivoted as she pocketed it Taz sat on the floor, one arm propped up on a raised knee, with his eyes closed and his lips curled in a post-orgasht of him took her breath away—not just because of how he looked, which was pretty daht never be the tell-each-other-everything couple, but that was okay because they were in this together for the long haul It wasn’t because of Genie’s Wish It wasn’t just a honeyether after the Bisu Manor ether, they loved each other The truth of it settled deep in her bones, a certainty as solid as the Rocky Mountains

“I don’t knohat’s about to go down,” she said, “but Elisa and Marko came up with the plan”

Taz opened his eyes and shook his

head “Oh God, those torking together is never a good thing”

“They only burned down one eot the whole sentence out without cracking a smile

“Exactly” He let out a weary sigh and stood up

She had to hand him that one The explosives expert and the con artist were a match made in trouble heaven, which hy it was a Godsend that the two couldn’t stop snarling at each other when they weren’t up to their elbows in the shit together

Holding up a hand to silence hiuard was still at his spot in front of the video screens The sandwich, chips and soda were history

“Holy fucking shit on a rye bread cracker,” the guard yelled and jurabbed his walkie-talkie next to the e and turned it on “I don’t knohat the hell is going on, Bob, but it looks like aliens landing on the south beach”

“Are you drinking, Jerry?” came the question out of the walkie-talkie

“Fuck you Bob Just get your skinny ass down there”

The guard hot-stepped it out of the security room

Bianca counted to ten and then walked out of the co to kno in the hell Marko and Elisa had ed an alien invasion from their spot on the Sutherland yacht anchored a mile from the island She paused in front of the video screens and couldn’t help but chuckle