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I shook ht it did, but the adrenaline didn’t last long It certainly didn’t last long enough to want to do it again” My eyes lifted to his “I don’t want to do it again I don’t want to be Eloise’s puppet”

He wrapped his arms aroundto be anyone’s puppet”

I inhaled the scent of his faded cologne on his shirt, somehow still crisp after a full day at the office My hands slid to his back

“I’ll leave the assignments to you That works for us, doesn’t it?”

“Yeah, it does It works”

I couldn’t help the lack of control I felt The creeping fear that everything around us was bigger than ere That we could be sed up whole and no one would even notice

“What do we do? Eloise is going to keep popping up I was in the flower shop this tioing to see her”

I could hear the hammer

ing of his heart Feel the heat of his chest I wanted to stay here in this place of cohn kept his arh

Vaughn peeled me off hiled with hiht

He took ht down by the Seine It’s been weeks since we’ve taken a walk together”

“Wh-what?” I stuttered

We weren’t even half drunk yet, but had he lost hisI wanted to do was distract froe of location “We’re in thehere”

He eyed o out”

I grumbled and walked past him It wasn’t until ere outside the aparthn’s stride was faster than usual He ledthe river