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“It coer touched hi bad aura that warns not to mess wit

h you, you’ve got a big heart”

“Don’t fool yourself into thinking that I haven’t done bad things,” he warned, not liking her assess but He wasn’t good “I’ve done things that would make you not like me very much”

He’d done things that made him not like himself very much… but he’d still done theet the job done He’d still be doing the governotten injured

Flattening her fingers against his heart, she studied hiainst her hand

“I believe you’ve always acted for what you felt was the greater good”

She washi he was

“Greater good is oftentimes a matter of perspective”

“I trust you”

“You shouldn’t” After all, in a way, he was deceiving her by being there without telling her the reason why He’d coone to work for her

“I don’t believe you’d ever hurtbrown eyes filled with exactly what she claimed—trust

“Not intentionally” He wouldn’t He’d do everything in his power to leave her as bright-eyed as he’d found her

“But unintentionally you ht?”

“It’s possible” Feeling htened his shoulders, pulling hier fell away “Let’s decorate the tree”

She wrinkled her nose “Do we have to?”