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Chapter 7
1 rood staring at the closed and locked doer in front of me. Hunter had made me promise to let him back inside when he came back. And I had given him my word. He was Simon’s father, İ shouldn’t truq him Judd At first I had thought it was the attraction fli be him, the ridiculously strong stinction that poetically had me drooling. But when he managed to calm me doren and brock my spital down into a full–blown panic attack, it had been clear it wasn’t just attraction. Somehow try body and my instinct told me to trust him. Even though my brain and consCONS thoughts did the band to tell the rest of me he was a man and as such he was dangerous. The way he had eeseloped me as he helped rose my hand had made me feel protected. Vi soci part a meis. There was a knock on the door and proped a font in the air. I reached out to unlock it, but reminded myself I needed to make it was Hunter on the other side. It son and I lat out the breath | had been hakding and unlocked the door.
Thank you for letting me back inside,” he said with a smile that made me why. It nodded. He had a big mulher with him, mmething that locked in belong in a comination wder Why did i make him look even sender? Has in his perfectly tailored suit, lacing amanda tendon shouldn’t have made me drool, hat it did. I retrived hard she put the tax down
“What’s that?” I asked, knowing full ve
This you how best frienst. I need you to have a way to keep safe. I would have given you a gan if I wasn’t half constreet that you would do me hame to yourself then anyone else if you tried Tuset And you don’t need trouble from the Link,” he said. Maybe I should be offended by his comment, but he wasn’t wrong. When I got nerven I got clumsy. And cum did
“Tha
a Dittle stronger than what is available on the open market. So I need you to be carefet. It’s not a gan, but it can still do some damage” he instructed me and then showed me how to weich the safety off and fire it. It made a crackling sound, and he looked at me when Tjumped at the sound
“Korry, caught me by Serprise,” I said. He put the safety hack on and handed it to me.
Try “I was a lei heavke than
expected, but 1 blowed-
sovections and when it crackled in my hand 1 huely diced
“Always point
“What is it?” I asked.
he reminded me with a smile. I noded. “I have this be you as well,” he said, halding up something in salad me
a a safety bar. Works like a sedety chain but it’s a lot handen tout. It lihove much you can open the door, but it will stil ger you a crack if you need to,” he said.
“can’t accept that. It’s too much,” Tial Na.
“Loudly it. It’s too little. I would have liked to not you up with a complete alarm sytem including careers. But I don’t have that sort of equipment with me. This will have to do for now. I would have said that it will make your dour imprequable. But the truth is, your door of a shitty quality. I will put this in for you and it will do its job. But if someone really wants to get inde, the deer will banyak beber the safety bar down. It will grow you in to get away from the door and get out through a window or something,” he said.
“kwindow““” Lasket
“Yes. Listen, wines. If they start force there, you do not hide or lock yourself in the broodus the like that. You run to a room where you have a window you can climb out through and you got out. If there is a door you can lock between you and them to buy yourself a Hite more time, then that’s good. But don’t hotate yourself Day?” He had called me wataru again. Why did I find it so endearing? Right, I needed to focus on what he was telling me. Ples, don‘ hide, don’t pank, get away
“I can do that,” said him. He smiled again.
you how and sit down the moment, it won’t take me long to install this thing I did he told me and sat down on the couch. I still had the caser in my hand, lod at it and wissbred if it really was as poseerful as Hunter had told me. It seemed stupid to test it on myself. I took one of the decorative pillows on the couch and put it down beside me. I took the laser and put it against the pillow and pulled the trigger. The sound was muffled, but instead I smelled buming. I immediately stopped lasing it and pulled the sater away. There was a large scosch mark an
– pline, which was stroking. Soil. Huster appeared beside me.
“Why do I mellanske?” he asked. Then he saw the pillow and the fuser in my hard. I felt myself blush. “Well, at bust didn’t give you a gin,” he said, a smile played on his lips as he picked up
okay. Now I know you can use a,” he told me with a chuckle as it walked to the kitchen. I followed him and watched his put the pilote in the sink and turn the tap on to clown it. “Sorry
came with the couch,” I told him. He licked at me and thun he hand out Laighing. It won’t a polite laughter. Ne this was a full out belly Egging laughter. It man dep, hào ho volor, and clear. Louble’t help but i vin hips and started laughing as well. It was a rare failing getting to laugh in the middle at evrything. As his laughter trickled down to a salt chucka i motionl how bright ban haney coloured keys had toxuna, then were soul winkles at the comer of them. I didn’t make him look uid, it was and cule. Lalu noticed he had taken has jacket of and rolled. up the slewess of has shart. Ha well–lowed bonus were owered in lation. Why did I tu un bat? I had never been led to the bad–boy type of men belone. But everything doel Hauler Hud my body humming
“Here,” the soil, bilding out a business card. “It has bati, my work and private plain. I want you to call me any time of day, un right, il something sees off on if you feel reale.”
“Thank you
jund disturb you like that,” I decid
you
“can and will mostly spend my time at work and you ate his tire is off limits you. And will
phone cut and sending me a message so I get your mundan. I will get thing moving and I need a way to koop you ashooned,” he sand. Right, I was has cheint, les sont ex wife wie veled lip. I neked to keep that in mind beker my sex–starved brain slanted sa belove name bury tale in which he would soup in and be aty kught in shining arman | was
“Thank you” I said, taking the card and getting my phone. I sent him a short text and he last phone and added contacts. He added as he did it and when he put his phone
Chapter 7
“Are you can’t persuade you to go somewhere else?
I you up in a hotel if you would peeker
leted. He might im me ni hii clerk, but he was sent noonathaleu
“I appreciate the offer. But I feel lehe. At to that got there do thing and this,” I said, wigging the user.
The car with that, one can set on the probably good daily quota,” he used.
“I stand corrected.” There was another przs. “Will you be okay if I leave you here?” he asked.
“Twill. I’m in much better shape that when you arrived. Thank you for that He waved his hand like it wasn’t a big deal. He walked out in the hallway and I followed and watched as he thre has things, thang his jacket over his am and grabbed his foodbes and turned to be me.
Then I learn, try using the safety bar, I’ll wall outside so you don’t have any issues with li. Make sure it’s alloys on when you am home,” he said.
“Olar” | agreed. | wanted to find something that would make him stay. 1 đêl safe with hôn nnmarad. But he was a stranger and I couldn’t ask him to spend more time on me than he already had. Apan he passed, as if he was thinking the cane thing so. 1 iht. But then he undled and nodded. When he waked not, I closed the door and pulled the cafety hot in place. I then cracked the door open Händer had been met, the crack was tranfer then with the chain, but it saker. “No beam,” Hold Hunter, who was boking at me through the unal crack
“Close the door and take it off so I know it works,” he told me. I nodded and closed the dest, flipped the harper and then opened the dowe “No problem?” beaded
“No, it works like a charm.” I told him. He dedi.
“Lock the door and stay safe Contact me if these is anything, no matter lu
hew scrall or insignificant il serra,” he told me.
“You to Hane. Thank you for everything
“Any time.” He waited and 1 gor the clie. I shut the dour and lecked all the locka and put the har and the chain in place, better sale than sorry. Then I watched through the peephole as Hunter firmed around and walked away. I lifted my hand to put my pain on my forcheid, only to almant knock myself out with the tazer, I had kargotten | was still holding it. Bubbing my forehead with nor other hand, 1 metted into the kitchen and put the taser on the kitchen oraneen as I checked on my drowned pilkowe. It was beyond seiner and i giggled as I put it into a garbage bag and ned it made and through the apartment, checking my windows and closing the curtains. Thated Rooling paraned, but I did. Inded up taking a shower and then crawling into bed. I had some hard Things to face mimos. But I could hide for it for night. My phone buced and I expected it to be Wictor checking to see if I had made up my mind load it was a test from Hunter
- Still
decided to go in ad
Me On my bedside unle.
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Mr. Thank you Sleep tight.
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