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“Who says I wasn’t?”
“Did you steal anything?”
I shake my head. “No.”
“Then you’re a shitty burglar.”
I giggle, and he smiles.
“C’mon, let’s get you into bed.”
I blush fiercely. His eyes flash with a hungry-looking heat.
“The guest room,” he grunts. He doesn’t acknowledge my reaction “get you into bed,” but I can see it in his eyes, and it makes me tremble. He shows me to a guest room and brings me a huge t-shirt and some boxers of his to wear to bed.
“Thank you,” I say softly at the doorway. “Honestly, thank you.”
“We’ll get to the bottom of this,” he growls. “For now, just sleep. Your body and your mind need it. I’m right down the hall if you need anything at all, okay?”
I swallow.
“I’m in the security business,” he growls. “And you’d better believe this house is a fortress. And I was also in the Marines,” he grins. “Believe me, that pistol is not the only gun I own.”
I smile, nodding. I’m already feeling a lot better.
“Get some sleep, Cora.”
He leans in. I gasp, and my heart surges with silly excitement. But he just kisses the top of my head. God, even that is sort of sexy in this sizzling way. Then he pulls away, and he’s gone.
I change and pull back the sheets before sinking into the bed. I pull the covers up to my chin, my mind still racing. None of this seems real. Twenty-four hours ago, I was just another college student trying to make ends meet with a demeaning cocktail waitress job.
Now, the cartel wants me dead. The chief of police of this very town wants me dead. And somehow, I’m now snuggled into the guest room of one of the two complete strangers who rescued me tonight.
Somehow, that doesn’t scare me.
I close my eyes and slowly start to fade to sleep. But my thoughts are not very innocent at all.
