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plummeting to the earth. There was no slowing it down, no stopping it. She was scared and excited all at the same time, and wasn’t sure how to handle it. “What are we going to do?”
    Troy squeezed her reassuringly. “We’ll figure it out. We just need to get some rest, and regroup.”
    “Well, we just blew the resting part.”
    He chuckled. “Yeah, but it was worth it.”
    She nodded, and snuggled closer despite her reservations. “Could we just stay like this, forever?”
    Troy ran his fingers through her hair. “I wish.”
    The door opened, sending a blast of cold air into the room, and across their naked bodies.
    Troy and Alix both jolted up.
    “Oh shit,” Sam said from the doorway. “I guess I came back a little too soon, huh?” As quickly as she had entered, Sam backed outside, and closed the door. Her laughter carried through the barrier as a muffled howl.
    Troy looked at Alix and raised a brow. “I suppose her timing could have been worse.”
    Alix laughed, and flopped back down on the bed. “Sam and her timing.”
    “A shower then?” Troy asked.
    Alix nodded. She hadn’t had the opportunity to bathe since the road trip had started. I must be a stinky cow. she lowered her arms self-consciously. She gave Troy a wan smile. “Yeah, a shower would be good.”
    He offered his hand as he stood.
    She took it and got to her feet. They staggered toward the bathroom. Alix hadn’t noticed the cold so much while they had been interwoven with each other. But now that they were apart, goose pimples rippled along her bare skin like a turbulent sea. She shivered. “Geez, get the hot water going!”
     
     
     
    The shower had been shorter than Troy would have liked. He found himself once again aroused, as he’d lathered soap onto Alix’s naked body. But Sam had been waiting outside in the cold, so he tried to practice some restraint. Alix had sabotaged his best efforts though. After she’d “accidentally” dropped the soap, and bent over to pick it up, Troy’s willpower failed. He took her once more. Sam be damned.
    Currently he sat in one of the small chairs next to the door of their little motel room. Alix and Sam lounged on one of the beds, snacking on the assortment of junk food Sam had picked up on her foray into town. As much as he tried to focus on the dilemma they were all in, Troy couldn’t keep his eyes off of Alix. The woman had completely bewitched him. Her enchanting smile and sexy laugh, only intensified his need to have her. Her pale green eyes, full lips, tantalizing breasts, and hips to kill for, burned his vision every time he looked at her. Flashbacks of her naked body thrusting against him, made his pants become uncomfortably tight, and he shifted in his seat.
    Alix cut her gaze Troy’s way, catching his movement. She gave him a sheepish smile, but said nothing. Troy could tell she was still embarrassed about being caught by her friend. The barrage of jibes from Sam about why the room smelled like sex, and the mock compliments about the two of them suddenly glowing, didn’t help either. Troy laughed it all off because it was actually kinda funny. But Alix appeared to become more and more self-conscious about it, and a bit withdrawn. He wasn’t sure what that was about, but he hoped she didn’t regret what they had done. He certainly didn’t.
    Sam had turned on the TV in hopes of getting some news that might help them to no avail. A sense of gloom permeated the room, even though everyone seemed at ease. The girls hadn’t initiated a discussion about what had happened the other night, or Alix’s confession about her power.
    Troy wouldn’t have believed a word she’d said if he hadn’t experienced the effects of her ability first hand. By his reckoning, he should have died at least twice since Alix had put the tat on him. Whatever it was she had done to him, it prevented death, but not pain unfortunately. He’d felt every bone-crunching fall, punch, and gunshot. Still, to cheat