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“I didn’t give you that much You should remember”

“Well, I don’t”

“Besides, there’s no way you waltzed in there without planning Not with all that security around You planned it So the drugs wouldn’t have impacted your memory that far back”

“Drugs affect everyone differently Since you use them so often, you should know that”

I wasn’t about to lay all my cards on the table Not when I still knew so little about him And why he was so interested in what I did to Brandon Adams

“What do you remember then?”

“Oddly… Tiffany bags and boxes,” I ad for some context

“Right My trunk was full of those”

“And I was, ah, in your trunk?”

“Now you’re getting it”

“Not really Why was I in your trunk?”

“To hide”

“To hide from what? From who?”

“Nuh-uh Not giving away all the spoilers right now”

“We’re seriously not going to discuss the details of all this until we land?” I asked To that, he waved a hand “Has anyone told you that you’re obnoxious?”

“Not in the past few hours”

“Well, allowback toward the little galley kitchen, preparing another cup of coffee

“So, Shahat do you do for a living?” Bellamy asked as I waited for my coffee to brew

I hated that question

Because the second I said the whole truth, people started askingassuave them a half truth

“I’off the fact that I was a hand model Yep, they existed And I just so happened to have delicate hands with long, thin fingers that rings looked really good on

He didn’t need to know the rest

“That tracks,” Bella a quick once-over

“I’m supposed to take that as a compliment”

“And yet…” Bella

“Exactly I’ toward the bedrooain, I will shove my knife up your urethra”

There

That would keep him away from me for a while