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to him that she was what he wanted.
     
    Slowly, so he would see, she licked her lips and lowered her eyes to watch his mouth.
     
    “Where are we?” she whispered. In the dim light she could just see his eyes as they heated, then he blinked and pulled away, leaving her breathless.
     
    He started pacing the small room, and then she heard him digging around in his bag. He pulled a small flashlight from one zipper. If he’d allowed her to go back for her bag, she would have her own light, and her hair brush, tooth brush, and toothpaste. She was growing more agitated by the minute, thinking of everything she’d lost.
     
    When the small pen light hit several large brown sacks, Jason walked over and tested them by kicking them with his shoe. She heard him mumble something.
     
    “What?” She walked over to him and stood next to him, wrapping her arms around herself.
     
    “It’s flour,” he said as he turned and looked at her. “We can sleep here tonight.”
     
    “What!” she stared at him in shock. Sleep in a broom closet on bags of flour? No way! Sure, over the last year she’d roughed it in small bed and breakfasts and dingy hotel rooms. She’d even spent one night on the beach, lying under the stars. But it had been almost ninety degrees out that night and the stars and moon had been bright enough that she’d felt safe and warm. Besides, it had been only a few feet away from one of the swankiest resorts on the south of France, just outside of Nice. She’d lain there and watched the airplanes land at the small oceanside airport and wondered where Jason was. It had been one of the best nights she could remember, but with all her travels over the last year, she never once wanted to sleep in a drafty, spider-infested broom closet while two large thugs waited somewhere outside to bag and tag her, so to speak.
     
    “Listen, Katie…” he ran his hands through his hair, causing him to almost drop the small flashlight. “We are not going back out there tonight. Those two men will be looking everywhere, at every hotel, every bed and breakfast, for you. We’re safer staying here for the night. Then early tomorrow, we’ll sneak out of town.”
     
    “So it was them? Who are they anyway? What do they want with me?” She stood there waiting for his answers.
     
    “I think they’re after you, possibly to ransom you off to your father. I heard them talking before they jumped you and they knew your name and mentioned a ransom.” He handed her the flashlight.
     
    “Point it in the corner.” He removed his jacket and as he started to move the large bags of flour around, she watched his t-shirt stretch over the muscles in his back. She longed to know what he would feel like, to run her fingers across every tight cord. Then her eyes roamed downward and she noticed how nice his faded jeans looked stretched over his butt. She had always loved his butt and wondered how it would feel under her hands as well. He had gained a few pounds of muscle since she’d seen him last. He looked leaner, but he was more defined all over, including his backside. How would it feel to grab it and hold on as he…
     
    Realizing where her thoughts were leading her, she shook her head and focused her eyes and the light back on his task, instead of his backside.
     
    She watched as he made a palette of six large bags. She kicked one with her toe and watched as a small plume of smoke rose up from it. Come morning, they would both be covered in white powder.
     
    When she looked back up, Jason had rolled his jacket up and handed it to her.
     
    “Use it as a pillow.” He took the light from her and motioned to her bed for the night.
     
    When she just looked at him, he said, “Listen, Kat, I can see how tired you are. Just lay down and I’ll take the first watch.”
     
    She crossed her arms, still waiting for answers.
     
    “I promise I’ll answer any questions you have in the morning.” She could always tell when he was telling the