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aring into the warm darkness of her borrowed be

promised. But then, she should have known better. Then the next week, she had tried as better as she could to make herself useful, since she had outstayed her welcome . She didn't wish to be an otiose person. It hadn't been easy to be useful on a horse ranch when she knew

dn't come the first week. Linda had been naive and had thought staying out of their hair was the way to keep from wearing out her welcome, she had been wrong. When her mother finally came for her two weeks later, they had told her mother not to bring her over again to th

n started to teach her about horses. But even with all this, Linda wasnt so comfortable. She felt

to get really worried. She had tried to place a collect call to the number her mother had left, no one had

e way around the stable. She sighed heavily, school was supposed to be start

came flooding in like a pack of moth attracted to light. What if her mother had been attacked by terrorist? She read somewhere Terrorism risk was high in the country. What if she had been kidnapped or

t bother Nico as his room was directly above hers. But despite her effort to keep her sorrow silent, he still heard her. Light from the hallway spilled into the room ad someone opened the door. She looked up to

s soft and unexpectedly gentle. "W

felt, completely broken. He walked into the room and sat on the side of her bed, wrapping his hand around her, one large palm caressed her back through the night shirt she wore. "Hey, Linda," His voice rumbled softly in her ear "Why don't you tell me what's wrong, huh?" This was the first time he was calling her anything but 'kiddo'. Maybe it was the way he said her name, or the way his voice sounded, so soft and gentle, or the way

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d leather and clean masculine sweat that was at once and entirely Nico. "I don't know. Mom's lest me for a lon

om, his hand still stroking her back. "But I do know that you ar

s bulged in disb

ven if we don't find her right away, you are

still a little uncertai

d approvingly, squeezing her tightl

my staying here? You promise?" She as

inda, I swear it. Heart swear, baby, the most sacred vow I know. I want you here with me and that's the truth." She could feel

." She repeated, feeling at ease for the first time in weeks. "Thank you .... Nico." It was the first time she

that." He grinned and ruffled her hair bef

er chin, she was completely his .... Mind, body and soul, and we'll on her way to falli