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“Really? I’ to walk in there and find out?”

“I’m not sure you would believe me if I told you”

“You wouldn’t lie to me” The words flew out of ht from the heart

He finished chewing before he closed up the sack and stuffed it back into his pack With his arms on his knees, he looked at the torch between us, the fire slowly died as it ran out of fuel to consuons”

My body hardened like I was frozen in place

My face must have been pale and my eyes in shock because he said, “Told you”

TWENTY

Huntley

She slept on top of me in the bedroll, the top blanket coainst her skin My arainst ht She was out like a wet torch, knocked into oblivion without a care

I was only half asleep, part of htened slightly, I knen had arrived, could feel it through my closed eyelids That hen I stirred Ivory “Time to wake up, Princess”

“Mainst me

“Baby, coliding up her back between her shoulder blades

Her eyes remained closed “Fuck me if you want me to wake up…”

Kinda hard to do in a bedroll ere both fully clothed “Later”

“Then I’ll wake up later”

“You’re already awake”

“Oh, I could go back to sleep so fast…”

I rolled her offthe absence of heat would freeze her to the bone shortly I packed our things, took a drink froot the saddles ready

A couple minutes later, she was fully awake, the cold too uncoh Her hair was all over the place, her eyes were squinting with a hint of malice, and she looked a little maniacal

“Not aperson, huh?”

She released a growl as she got up and got ready

I chuckled then prepared the horses

With sleep still in the corners of her eyes, she walked to her horse “I’ tired”

“You don’t knohat tired is, Princess”

She gave me a smack on the arm then turned back to her horse

I gave her a hard smack on the ass

She turned back toyou…”

“Do your worst, baby” I grabbed the reins to her horse and pulled her away along with mine

Ivory followed behind ?”

“We’re walking for a while”

“Why?”