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My heart sank a little "All over?"

"Now that they’veto be your last Landon fast You make them sound so burdensome You’re incredibly lucky"

Our eyes met and he took my hand as alked "I don’t uess I was too caught up in being with you to realize that you’d probably enjoy this a lot more than I typically do"

"I don’t haveto have a faranted, Blake Everything can change in an instant"

"Yeah, you’re right"

Ahead of us, at the edge of the enorazebo We walked up some old wooden steps from the beach Inside, the structure was ornately built and offered an i now, and the ocean air cooled around us I sat close to Blake, and he wrapped an arm around me as we settled back to take in the scenery I rested my head on his shoulder as he traced circles down ht about Risa," I said after a while

"Yeah Did you find what you were looking for?"

"I think so My question is, how did you?"

He stayed silent

"Blake"

He sucked in a slow breath that whistled through his teeth "You’re not going to like it"

"So what? Tell me"

He pushed the errant strands of hair away from his face only to have them fall back "I hacked your email account"

I stilled "What?"

"I orried about you"

"That’s a major invasion of privacy, Blake! Why--"

"Trust me, I wasn’t the only one worried about you Marie even reached out to rill me about what I did to upset you so much"

My jaw dropped Marie Dah yourI should be concerned about While I was in there, I checked out Risa’s and Sid’s, purely out of curiosity since you’d decided to shut "

"And you saw her es to Max?"

"Don’t say I didn’t warn you"

"I don’t understand why that specific inforh"

"The invest Trevor fat checks? It took et past all the layers of corporate privacy, but I finally tracked down the people behind it"

"And?"

"See the company as a front to fund Trevor’s efforts He’s basically been paying Trevor to run this group and be a full time pain in my ass"

"But the attacks stopped"