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Because he’d been incredibly forthco feelings, everything

She wasn’t just here with him, at his estate, because it was the safest place for her She had no doubt there was a sanctuary on the ops caot to her She wasn’t just in his bedroom because there were no others available

And he wasn’t going through hell right along with her because she was a ame

She was so much more than that

To him

“Goddamn it,” she murmured

He was equally tormented

And that broke her heart further

As her eyelids drifted open, she pinned him with a solemn, misty-eyed look, and said, “I don’t kno to be locked in hell with you, Damen” She drew in a deep breath Let it out slowly “Nor do I kno to escape it”

He understood her words And the tension gripping her

It radiated through him as well

Daed a hand down his face Shifted it around to his nape and rubbed the knot there

This was all kinds of bad and wrong

But it wasn’t a new scenario for hi how to handle this situation from the moment it’d struck him that the device could compromise her computer

He returned her intent look, saying, “We can’t do anything at the moment, Nikki Not for a few hours, at any rate The best we can do is get some rest”