Betrayal's Embrace

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r everything that happened. You know this operation cou

. He wouldn't even stare into the rearview mirro

y are you still choosing to pursue this?" His q

this if you we

're trying to guilt trip me, huh? I

thing to do with the unnecessary feud we've both been

that made it quite obvious it

backup, we need to squash what

am not a fan of her games. She knew we were at odds and somehow I find myself driving yo

known as the gutsy one and secondly, you might want to smile. Trust me when I say I do not like s

mediately knew what his little mind was thinking. "It seem

wander. I meant exactly the opp

rk clinging to his lips. "Ah, if yo

. "Okay, I would really appreciate it if you just kept quiet.

earn my annoyance and boy, was it working. When we got to the airport and I collected my luggage, hi

is moment could mark our frie

the car back in gear. Definitely

grumbled loudly and the headache I had been fighting for a while ached. Watching TV shows all these years, we always s

seemed like something was going to go wrong anyway and no amount of inten

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ng sitting in the waiting room and nibbling on a half-done burger. Great! Job hadn't even begun yet and I was already having bad exp

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my hands over my head and wav

was kind of in a pickle. The pick-up truck developed a flat

to begin bei

ides, I'm hungry. V

d the way he said it, it was music to my ears. We both started making our way to his car. "Okay, see

down and my lips... 'unpursed'. Deciding to ask the

at each

actually serious... This man had to be a beast to ban su

that I tell you as soon as I get

ut seeking to be disrespectful, what

went on to shake his head. "No, no. I didn't mean it like that. I meant... Just d

thing... So, I'm still kind of excuse

lk with him. That's where he tells you

re

bber as I walked out of the car. The house was on a lonely ground. We'd only passed two to three houses for a mile before getting here. Either thi

be on another plane ride," I said,

't tell me you

had said that. "Well, I try to be. I'm

you'r

house calmed the fear that I felt creeping into my heart. This place was isolated. Perhaps too isolated. Somehow this discovery s

o you get groce

a priva

, very

"Well, thanks but I was

wa

s,

just picked up from the airport? You could hav

er been on that jet before. It'

e chuckled, reminding me. "You know, I didn

e. And I forgot to ask yours, I mean I know, bu

te. "Josi

Nice to meet

ng kind, which was completely opposite of his leather jacket. "I have a question f

k your q

do here basically, and this coo

speak, but never did. S

.. His eyes were the most beautiful shade of blue, but I knew that

ay that? Four years of training and that was all my sma