I gave Parker the rundown. I wasn't being callous, it just never entered my mind. They wouldn't actually lay hands on me, or boot my ass out, but if they wanted to be uncooperative, they could be. The audience agreed with him, most of them.
The only thing that had changed was the mark on Micah's neck. I have to be a bastard to you, so that I don't fall down at your feet and beg you to take me back. Because between one breath and another, the memory overwhelmed me, and suddenly that heavy warmth spread from low in my body to spill over my skin in a dance of goosebumps. I concentrated on the feel of him, and as if he felt my thoughts, he began to relax against me.
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