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The sound of the door closing after the at Mace He was alive Healthy Larger than life And for the first time since they’d met, she didn’t knohat to do with him

Mace didn’t seeet over here,” he ordered

Keiko didn’t move “You nearly died”

It was an accusation, and he heard it as such “I’et over here”

Like it would be that easy “You can’t drag me into this freaky world of yours and leave me alone in it”

“I knoon’t do it again”

Her heart fluttered at his words “You’d better not”

“If you don’t co over there”

And then her heart started to pound loud enough for her to hear “We have things we need to discuss”

He was on his feet, prowling toward her, his gaze so hot it made her melt “We can talk after”

“Mace…” Anything she had to say was lost as he stood in front of her Her th and power, seely indestructible

Slowly, gently, he reached out to cup her cheeks “Thought I’d lost you,” he whispered “Said goodbye in my head while I watched you shoot your way across the terrace, running to get toaway I told you everything when I was sure I was dying And now that I know I’ sure you hearabout you”

“Mace,” she whispered as she drowned in the depth of emotion in his eyes

“I want you to stay with me, baby, to spend your life with me I can’t promise you an easy life, but I can proh everythere is to know aboutin this time, and I doubt I ever will I’m an outlaithout a country And because of my weird-ass DNA, I don’t knohat the future will hold In all honesty, I’ve got nothing but negative prospects to offer you, and yet I’, if that’s what it takes Because I don’t want to deal with this neorld without you”

Keiko sniffed back tears that threatened “How as like that?”