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Isaac grabbed her ar up her jeans "You can't be serious about going There's got to be another way"

God, she wished there was Dread sat like a chunk of concrete in her sto her hen she stepped inside the compound She knew it Isaac knew it Whatever Jarrod had planned for her would be, at the very least, a lesson in public humiliation

"We don't have a choice" She shook his hand off and yanked up her jeans "Anyway it's just a delay until Marko and Elisa get back and you three make your es nothing, but if it keeps Jarrod froet there, then I have to do it

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Isaac stood up and tugged her T-shirt out of her hands before she could put it on, anger id "You have no idea what he's really up to It's a trap"

She peeked around the corner of theblinds Across the gravel parking lot, a dust-covered sedan sat idling in front of the diner Turning back, she drank in the sight of Isaac He looked like a naked avenging angel, all righteous fury and determination

"It doesn't h her at the sight of him "I trust you I know you'll come for me"

And she did As surely as baton twirling would always get mocked as the most useless of beauty queen talents, Isaac would always be there for her Just like she would be for him That's just how love worked

She slid the T-shirt fro up on her tiptoes and brushing her lips across his "I'll see you soon"

He didn't like it, but he didn't stop her when she walked out into the earlyquiet

Isaac

The sound of gravel crunching under tires was the first good thing to have happened since he stupidly let Tao He picked up his ninefor soood right about now

He didn't recognize the truck, but there was no ht for his room He hustled across the room and yanked open the door

Marko had one hand up as if he'd been about to knock He earing jeans, a western-style button-down shirt, and a baseball cap advertising soood old boy farmer Elisa looked like she'd just walked off the set for a movie about pioneers

"Where in the hell have you been?" Isaac asked, standing to the side so they could come in