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Nohat? Should he reveal himself, or wait for her to head up to the party?

He knew the moment he opened hisshe’d cleaned out her burned out apartment earlier, he wanted to , like someone to talk to, or a shoulder to cry on

A mouth to kiss

Loyal shook his head at the ridiculous direction of his thoughts and hooked his thumbs in the utility belt of his costume as he forced himself to wait

But soon it became clear by her slumped shoulders and absolute stillness, she wasn’t in a hurry to get up to the nation, then couldn’t help the upward tug of his lips as he shouldered away fro

“We have to stoplike this”

Chapter 12

Roxanna’s heart jale her surprised squeak She jerked toward Loyal’s deep voice so hard she nearly fell off the bench When she saw hi in the shadows in a Bater spiked hot and hard

“God, you’re such an ass Stop doing that!”

“Hey, two out of three were not my fault Actually, neither was this third one I waited for you to leave, but it’s like your butt is glued to the wood there”

She growled her annoyance and spun her leather-clad butt around on the bench so she wasn’t facing hi, stubbled jaw and his da half-mask and it wasn’t the scare that made it hard to catch her breath

“What are you doing down here anyway? Shouldn’t you be up there?” She waved the cat-ear mask in her hand toward the Halloween party

“Too many people up there”

The coht back a fuzzy memory of his voice in her head “Numbers don’t lie like people do”

Both statements indicated he wasn’t much of a people person