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“For hitting him? No need to thank me. I didn’t do it for you. I did it for me.”
“You did it for both of us. When I saw him talking to you, some part of me died inside.”
“You’ve had more than enough parts beaten and broken. You don’t need more.”
“But I can’t forget.”
Her face burns with revenge.
A prickly heat starts at the base of my spine and shoots up. “Lindsay, stay out of this.”
“Stay out of what?”
“Whatever you’re planning.”
She gives me a hard look.
But doesn’t deny it.
I try a different tack.
“We can work together.”
“What?” She’s genuinely surprised.
“Together. This is bigger than both of us. Getting back at them is, too. You stole my gun, Lindsay. You’re afraid my guys and I can’t protect you. You’re trying to be a lone wolf. You don’t have to. Don’t you see? That’s why I’m here. Why my guys are here.”
“I thought you were here because my father hired you.”
“That’s the surface reason.”
She narrows her eyes, studying me, all traces of crying gone.
“I still don’t know who to trust. Mom and Daddy said I did well today. Mom was horrified by the strange ‘accident’ you and Blaine had.”
I let out a grunt.
“And they don’t want me on any more campaign stops for a while.”
“How do you feel about that?”
“Relieved.”
I would be, too. None of this is what she wants.
“But I have this big feeling of ‘now what?’ hanging over me.”
“So do I,” I tell her, voice low, body language clear.
Her face turns, looking out the window, but she steps into my body space again. I wrap my arms around her. She sinks into me. The heat of her skin makes her so soft. So yielding.
“I’ve missed you,” I say.
“I was a complete bitch to you earlier,” she says with a cold laugh. But she doesn’t move out of my arms.
“That’s fine. It turns me on.”
She smiles and shakes her head fast, like she can’t believe me. “Pervert.”
