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“Like I didn’t know where you’d be,” she said with an eye roll.
“Is everything okay?” I asked.
“I think Hammy wants to go pee. But I don’t want to take her alone.”
“Oh, yeah. I can go with you.”
“No, you can’t,” Rune called from the bathroom over the running tap. “Wait for me. We’ll all go.”
Sofia sent me a thrilled smile.
“I’ll just go grab Hammy. Be right back.”
Rune walked back out and reached for his t-shirt. “You don’t have to go with us.”
“Yes, I do.”
“We walk Hammy all the time by ourselves.”
“Back before I was around, sure,” he said, sliding his feet into shoes.
I rolled my eyes but was secretly charmed by the show of chivalry.
“Wait. One more thing,” Rune said when I reached for the door handle.
“Yeah?” I asked, turning back.
His hand grabbed the side of my neck, yanking me against him, then ducking his head.
I wavered on my feet, my heart swooping, my belly flipping.
But his lips just lingered a breath away from mine.
“I’m not done with you,” he murmured.
Then he reached past me, yanked the door open, and waited for me to move on my jelly legs.
“We’re ready!” Sofia declared as I moved away from Rune and his wicked little smirk.
So then… we all took a walk.
And went back to our separate beds.
Where I sat awake… wishing I was across the hall.
With the man I tried to kill a few days ago.
What the hell had my life become?
CHAPTER TWELVE
Rune
“Did the cops get anywhere with the brothers?” I asked Chip the next day. The girls got all pampered at the spa, and I went to meet the window guys I had called first thing in the morning.
“No. Said the brothers had an alibi. But I’m not buying it. They probably got their friends to vouch for them.”
“Probably,” I agreed.
