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She buried her face in the side of his neck. He smelled clean and strong.

“I don’t want to,” she said. “I don’t want to live looking over my shoulder anymore, wondering if someone is behind me with a gun, but I don’t ever want to go back to being the woman I was.”

When her breath had steadied, she asked, “So what do we do now?”

He pulled his head back until he could look at her. “Now we’re going to fix it so that you can be whoever the hell you want to be.”

His smile warmed her from the inside out. She felt her own lips curve in answer. A few more days—that was probably all they had left together.

So why did she feel like he’d just promised her forever?