he explained in response to my ‘Are you kidding me?’ look. “Just who is this friend of yours?” I asked. If she was one of his girlfriends, I might have to kill myself. “She must be some kind of badass if you’re afraid of her.”“Wary,” he said with a mysterious little smile. “Wary, not afraid. Let’s just say I’d simply prefer not to get on her bad side if I can help it.”“No, you save all your more charming behavior for me,” I grumbled. “Wow, you really know how to make a girl feel special, Nathan.” “Nate,” he corrected, “And I haven’t even begun to show you how charming I can be, Ember.”“I think I’ve had about all of your ‘charm’ I can stand, actually, Nathan.” I felt a vindictive twinge of satisfaction when he flinched and turned to check out the hotel so he wouldn’t see it on my face and find some way to make me pay for it later. It wasn’t large, but it wasn’t a roach motel, either. The parking lot was well-lit, illuminating the twenty or so cars parked there. Good, there would be someone around to hear me if I started screaming if Nathan decided he needed a midnight snack.Wait. Screaming…I realized then that he was giving me another golden opportunity to be rescued. If I could just get someone’s attention, I could start screaming bloody murder that I had been kidnapped. I wouldn’t have to disappear, never to be seen again. I could go home and go back to my life and forget this whole thing had ever happened.“Before we go in, I think we need to set some ground rules,”
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