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shaken until they were unrecognizable. Back then, it had been all fun and
games and bullshit.
Meg hadn’t known who he and Galen were. She hadn’t recognized him,
hadn’t made the connection between Theo and Theodore Fitzcharles III.
It felt good to just be Theo.
It felt like maybe he might be able to make a life with the ashes of
everything he’d ever known burning down around him.
Galen was right, though. To indulge himself—to indulge both of them
—with Meg was to endanger her. Theo might be a bastard, but he wouldn’t
drag an innocent woman under with him just because she made him feel
good. Whatever problems Meg faced were of a much more mundane nature
than princes and crowns and assassins in the night. He wouldn’t change
that, not for anything.
He let his hand drop. “We need to get moving.”
“Yeah.” Galen pushed away from the computer and headed for the door.
“I’ll get the bags.” He hesitated in the doorway. “We’ll find a way through
this, Theo. I won’t let the bastard win. Not again.”
Theo nodded. There was nothing else to do. They had an impossible
battle in front of them, and there was no way to get through it without
casualties. Meg wouldn’t be one of them, and that had to be enough for
him.
He didn’t want it to be.
Theo headed back into the bedroom. He stopped just inside the door and
stared at the bed, memories from last night imposing themselves over the
white sheets. Meg’s moans, her cocky smile, her laughter.
Damn it, Galen, I like her, too.
Even if his didn’t have a country-load of baggage he was carting
around, Meg had made her preferences pretty damn clear when she snuck
out without saying goodbye. Maybe he’d pushed too hard about having
dinner, but Theo didn’t believe in playing games when he saw something he
wanted.
He wanted Meg.
They both did.
He started to turn for the door and paused at the sight of a folded piece
of paper on the pillow. He crossed the distance in two large steps and