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awake by the loud voices echo

on the floor and d

ssed my ear to the door. I'm scared shi

heard in years thunder

e is

hed and my anx

an, and he

know I was missing had c

ight, I had imagined what I would say if I saw Adrian again, bu

he warmth of his blood on my hands, the familiar slope of his jaw, the wa

ble floor, a door being slammed somew

om I was in clicke

n Mor

shirt rolled up his elbows. His gun was held beneath one arm and his e

a searchlight, checking, s

e said, his voic

to you."

us snapped like a ro

door with a soft click, a

er chain around his neck. A saint Jude medal old and w

and my knee

ay?" He

drugged, kidnapped, and locked

." I said nonchalantl

idn't order this. I didn't ev

and silk pajamas just... app

d to be up right now. My men took matters into their ow

e?" I asked f

ng to do wi

ill me and they think you s

about

nk yet." He responded an

vibrated b

r. Not rushed. J

how my body reacted to him. My heart rate

ou were alive." I whispe

die." He said. "Would've s

too lat

tep, we were only

here I stood. He oozed l

embered. His body was carved by both discipline and violence and he move

jet-black and neatly swept back with

he had gotten it. But from his line of work and who he had become, that should

d. But now they were like a storm, unreadable and so intense, that you didn't just look into them, you

en beneath his cuff was a black tattoo scripted in Latin, looking lethal. I

beauty, there was something haunted and broken in the stillness

e hairs on my skin stood at attention for him. I so desperately

re now?" I aske

needed to see you... To look in your eyes and figure out i

nd my heart

ed out, just barely. His fingers bru

point it at him. But instead, I leaned in

" He said, his voice

ay he sai

it for you.

id it for the boy you used to know

just run a marathon. He was inches from me now. The silly

softly. Like I would break and cru

s of the warmth of his arms, the safety as well

s nothing."

face, as his lips hovered over mine, seconds

en- a

be heard outs

instincts razor-sharp,

undered down

just outside the door.

e turned back to me his expressio

rward. "What

aked the location." He rep

d up in anxiet

room." He begged before slamming the door b

anked the curtain aside a

d and men in tactical gears moving like shadows, but they weren't poli

k to the room and back to the bed. I picked up the key Lu

lf with. I couldn't leave this room since the door could

y in my palm and reme

the truth... go throu

midnight and try to avoid the