on's exit. Bethel murmured an excuse

n Chynna came running out, her fa

el! W

g slightly. "God, can you believe h

l away. "I really n

breath smelled of expensive Chardonnay. "You don't get i

a beat. "I don't keep

dad chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. Baron isn't just an engineer.

to even date a Lowery is insane. Like, if you stole a candy bar in third

t new information; they were the very bars of the cage she had locked herself in five years ago, now being described to her by an

al in the family? Baron would be stripped of his clearance before the first dat

al penitentiary for federal fraud tied to a suspected treason

go," Bethel

to the bachelorett

The display showed the car was stuck on the top floor.

the heavy door t

ed loudly on the metal steps, the sound echoing in the ver

e flight, clutch

he sme

expensiv

hand froze on the

leaning against the wall. The orange cherry of a cigarette g

was wa

rs. He hadn't been gone for more than ten minutes, yet he was here, perfectly p

rumbled up to her, low and vibr

rned to run back up, but the he

under the heel of his shoe. He looked up.

away agai