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And yet…

When Nikki had been reading to Nico Valdiviesio in his hospital rooer who’d saved thirteen lives and had warned countless others of the i that exploded in Mexico City… She’d sensed that perhaps it was time to move on from Conner

Especially since Nico had stirred eht were so fizzled out and buried, they’d never resurface

Nohile “Nico” sat beside her as Damen Castillo… She felt those emotions and sensations more acutely

The sensations were easy to attribute to inherent sexual tension related to their attraction to each other

The emotions were a bit more complex to reconcile They rapped around her past and his present Herto what she’d lost—and his need to ensure no one else suffered Not on his watch

Son of a bitch Why can’t he be the bad guy?

That would make it easier to extract herself frouy

But, of course, he wasn’t

He played on the sa people, especially in ti hi a traumatic crisis or an international catastrophe

She took a deep breath, tinged with his cologne And suddenly tingled from head to toe

Nikki fought a sigh of exasperation

This was soo inconvenient Soo inappropriate And soo…inescapable

And why for the love of God had she not backed up her hard drive to an external source or uploaded it to a cloud environment?

Ugh!