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Malek paid the bartender to drug Spider

Malek & Spider

I don’t speak to him for two days. I can’t. I’m too angry.
I’m not sure which one of us I’m more angry with, however, him or me.

“I have to go to work today.” He pauses. “I’ll be back late.”
I suspect there’s more he wants to say. The pause felt significant. I wait, my heartbeat going even faster.
After a while, he speaks again. This time, his tone has changed. It’s grown dark. “Don’t try to run away.”
I whisper, “I won’t.”
“You should.”
“Why?”
“You know why.”

When I wake up in the morning, Mal is sleeping on his side next to me in bed, his arm under my neck, a leg thrown over both of mine, his big warm hand splayed over my belly.
Right over my scar.

He slept next to her instead of in the chair.

Riley asks Malek about his tattoos

Riley explains her tattoos to Malek

I fall asleep with my silent assassin caretaker watching over me, keeping me safe.
This time when I dream of gunfire, he’s there to protect me with a shield and a flaming sword.

Riley about Malek

He’s a consent king who washes her hair.
Gah!
I’m melting!

Oh, that’s wonderful. What the hell must my face have been telling him when he was strutting around with his damn shirt off? I hope it wasn’t the same thing my ovaries were saying, because those horny little egg producers have only one thing on their minds.
Riley