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Heunder his breath that she couldn’t quite catch, and then he took a step toward her “You’re going to find out anyway” He lazily reached for the hidden fasteners down the front of her suit, before hooking his fingers under the sea it apart All the while, his eye stayed on hers “There are paths through the red cloud”
Friday gasped She wasn’t entirely sure if it was fro infor her Even though she knew she shouldn’t be attracted to the man who held her life in his hands, she couldn’t help the pull she felt toward hirace and his easy sexuality He wasn’t like any et closer to hi
“Paths?” Her voice seemed more husky than usual
His eye darkened “Like a ht paths, and you need to stick to thes happen” The last fastener on her suit popped open and the front gaped apart, catching on her breasts but baring her fro sih, only deadly”
“The tunnel ent through was deadly, too” She could still hear the roar of the earth closing in behind the of the cool night air on her skin
“Yeah, but not like the er from the hollow of her throat all the way down her body to the indentation of her navel “Never felt anything softer”
Her skin burned in his wake
“Hoill the suit and barrier cream protect me if I touch the es of her suit to hold it together and feeling a ret that she’d removed herself from his touch
“It will buy you tiaze was intense when he looked at her “There’s a way to counteract the mist while it’s still on the skin, before it’s absorbed The cream buys us the time we need”
Everything within her stilled “You kno to counteract the mist?” she whispered
That kind of knowledge was priceless It orth farshe had in her head He didn’t need her or the money she could ertips
“I kno to stop theabsorbed I don’t kno to counteract it once it’s inside the body”
“Youh concerning the mist in a hundred years It could blow the scientific coe e know about the Red Zone Not to e” Her voice began to rise at the thought “There isn’t a ruling body on the planet that wouldn’t pay for it Not toover themselves to own your research You would be famous”
“I don’t want to be famous I don’t want to sell what I know I just want to live peaceably”
“But—”