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not going to risk an accident taking you away from me.”
    I nod, swallowing the questions on my lips until we’re safe. I start the car and pull down the narrow gravel road, heading away from Pitt’s house and the sirens growing closer and closer, howling like dogs chasing a train they’re never going to catch. Gabe and I are gone, and all the evidence is burning away. Even if they get the fire put out, Pitt will be nothing but charred remains. There will be no fingerprints, no hair or spit or blood or anything to tie me and Gabe to Pitt’s death.
    Together, we’ve killed a man and gotten away with it and it feels…okay.
    Not great, not a rush like the other jobs, when we could barely wait to get back to my house and make love, but okay. He was a horrible man who had already murdered one person, and who would have tortured and killed me if he’d had the chance. I can live with his blood on my hands. As long as I have Gabe, I can live with anything.
    “I know something’s wrong,” I say as I steer the car down back roads, instinctively guiding us toward the highway, not caring where we’re spit out. I know the area around here well enough to get us home in minutes as soon as I see a mile marker. “But I want you to know that I’m not going anywhere. I want to help, no matter what it takes.”
    Gabe sighs. “Okay.”
    I blink, and cast him a surprised glance out of the corner of my eye. “That’s it?”
    “I was expecting you’d say that, and I know how strong and determined you are. I knew it when I was driving to your house tonight, but now…” He looks over at me, admiration in his eyes. “Now, I wouldn’t put anything past you. You were amazing. I’m proud of you and I love you so much.”
    Tears fill my eyes, but I bite my lip, using the pain to hold them at bay. “I love you, too. But don’t ever try to get rid of me again, okay? I can handle anything, but that.”
    “I won’t,” Gabe says. “And I won’t leave. At least not willingly, I promise.”
    I sniff away the stinging in my eyes, swiping the back of my hand across my nose. “What should I do with these clothes?” I ask, not wanting to think about the last thing he said, or what might be so wrong with him that he felt compelled to try to destroy us in order to shelter me from it.
    Better to concentrate on the things I can control, at least until we’re back at the house.
    “I’ll take them home and burn them in the back forty tomorrow,” Gabe says. “The police shouldn’t have any reason to come to your house tonight, but even if they did, I pulled those from Pitt’s clean laundry. They shouldn’t have any DNA or anything on them that would connect them to him or that house.”
    I nod, feeling a little of the tension leak from my arms. “Okay.”
    We drive in silence for a few minutes, before Gabe softly asks. “Can I ask a favor?”
    “Anything,” I say, meaning it. I would do anything for him, and I know he would do anything for me.
    “Can we wait to talk until tomorrow morning? I want one more night. I just want to hold you and go to sleep with you on my chest and pretend that everything is the same. Just for one more night.”
    My tongue slips out to dampen my lips and tears are slipping down my cheeks again, but I nod. “But tomorrow you tell me the truth, and we move forward. Together.”
    “Yes. Together.” He reaches out, threading his fingers through mine. “I don’t want you to feel guilty about what happened tonight, okay? We didn’t have a choice. If he’d lived, he would have continued to be a danger to you and the kids. Even if I could have convinced him to leave you alone, he’d obviously developed a taste for what he did to his mother. He would have found another victim, sooner or later.”
    I slow, braking as we pass under the overpass and prepare to turn south on the highway. “I don’t feel guilty.” I stop in the middle of the abandoned road, and turn to face him. “Do you think that makes