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Seize it

Save Elskov

Spend the rest of your life with Ruby

Be the hero Get the girl Isn’t that hoorked for the good guys Ruby swore he was one of?

He pulled Ruby close, le heartbeat, and brushed his lips across hers “I’ back for you”

“You have to go first,” shein her eyes

He took herhe couldn’t and pro he’d deliver in the future, and there would be one He’d do whatever it took tothat he had to do so, he broke the kiss and pocketed an extra azine for the Uzi

“This isn’t over,” Lucas said, then ran out the door, guns ready

…

It took everything Ruby had not to follow Lucas out the door Watching him leave wrecked her, but she didn’t have a choice, not if the plan she’d concocted with Jasper was going to work She watched fro she’d ht decision not just for him, but for her, too

“Are you sure about this?” Jasper asked, taking a handgun fro her a bulletproof vest

She took the vest, which was much heavier than it appeared, and slipped it on “Are you?”

“I reed to ith the Americans” He fastened the Velcro on the vest and handed her a sweatshirt he’d brought with him from the Sparrow’s roo out for everyone else to watch out for yourself That shit better end now”

Da to make her cry “You’re not as dumb as you look, little brother”

“I had a really great older sister who taught s”