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“Fuck no I couldn’t risk losing you” I wipedstreamed, and it eird I wasn’t physically upset in a nored o “I’etic by nature—you know that, Shan But you’re the exception to every rule Finally being with you—being able to show you how I feel…? I’ve never been freer”

He exhaled and rubbed my arm “An inmate feels just a bitlocked in a cell You and I want more than the courtyard, don’t we?”

Day

I chewed onthere was only one response “Yes, sir”

“Good Let’s try coain “We have to lie enough in our line of work I don’t want to bring that into our relationship too”

We were in a relationship

I sht,” I said “Is this where I confess that Pat and I stole your Jaguar in high school?”

He didn’t s I didn’t already know, you little shite But cheers for the reot you a sweet Audi R8 last year Maybe he’ll borrow it”

I recoiled from his arms and stared at him in sheer disbelief

He laughed Hard

Epilogue 1

After lying low “for a while”

It’s ti

I didn’t knohy that text from Finn had made such an impact, but I’d read it a dozen times since I’d received it yesterday, and I felt every word reverberating throughin my marrow

With a blanket wrapped around me, I stood on my balcony and took a sip of my coffee while I looked out over the snowcapped mountains