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“That’s the nicest thing you’ve said to h out of hi are you keeping me here?”

“That depends How long are you going to keep avoiding me?”

“That’s not an answer”

“And when you answer a couple ofback to the States”

“Look, Bella you with any fucking infor anyway So I don’t knohat you want from me here”

“Nothing, huh?” he asked, brow arching up Al

Banking down any eed “I have flashes Like the Tiffany bags And I don’t know, that spilled liquor smell of a bar But that’s about it,” I lied

“Maybe if we talked about it ested, and there was still suspicion in his voice I shot hi “We could find… other ways to occupy our ti my sex clench hard at the insinuation

“Sure How about we talk about… how you got so hthearted, boyish sht There was a darkness that flashed across his eyes then It was gone so quickly that I al

Notand too ierous situations in my life It was difficult to truly scare me

But that look?

That look was scary

I didn’t knohere it caly place

I al it up

Almost

“No?” I asked, forcing ht and breezy “Hm Well, we could talk about how ainst my will That could waste a couple of hours, I’m sure”

“Seeing as you have less than a squeaky-clean reputation, love, I would be careful with the accusations”

“Or what?” I asked, brow raising “You’ll murder me on your fancy deck and ht wood planks?”

He conored that

“What’s your name?”

“Shawn We covered that”

“Shahat?”

“Shawn I’ a smile at him

“Cute Why didn’t you have any sort of identification or cell phone on you?”

“I like to travel light”

“How did you get to Adams’s house?”

“We covered this already I don’t know” That, at least, was the truth If I could pepper enough of the truth in, the whole thing would be

“Why did you kill Adams?”