??It's been three days and I just got the results back from the mold guy, and somebody's gonna get a hurting put on their ass. Seems like someone planted that shit under her bed in the dorm. They found some type of material covered in the spores that had been deliberately planted according to them. Of course the roommate pleaded innocence, we'll see. They wanted to fuck around, let's play. I don't know how they knew it was deliberate but I'm not questioning it, they're the experts. My job now was to find out who, and make them pay. I hadn't left her side in all this time. No classes no football practice nothing. I hadn't told anyone what was going on just that she had a cold. Now the secret was out and the guilty had to know I was coming after their ass. First, I had to get her all better and then I'll go on the hunt. If my choosing her had put her in danger then that was the least I could do. They should've come after me whoever this was. Maybe then

?I don't want him anywhere near her. I don't want her to ever lay eyes on him again in this lifetime. Pretty fucked up thinking I know but that's how I feel about her. She's mine, she's always going to be mine and no one was allowed to come between that, especially not an ex who had done her dirty.? I don't know what he was expecting to gain by coming here, but whatever it was he was going to get more than he bargained for, only not in a good way. If he was such an asshole to give up something as fucking phenomenal as my Skylar, then he must be a real first class ass. I had no doubt that he had realized his mistake and was coming here to ask her to take him back. I am going to see to it that he never gets the chance. Not because I didn't trust her, but because I'm not the kind of man who would ever allow another dude to approach his woman. I kept up small talk with Kevin about inconsequential bullshit, which seemed to put her at ease. I hated deceiving her but I

?By end of day I knew what make and model rental car he was driving. I had my girl squared away in the condo while I was about to go on the hunt. I had to be slick because she was watching my every move. Ever since I'd picked her up from her last class she's been on tenterhooks. I knew she knew he was close since Stephanie had given us an estimate of when he'd be here. The guys I'd had on her all day had reported that she was a little jumpy most of the day. Looking over her shoulder when going from one place to the next when I wasn't there to distract her, but they'd done their bit to keep her mind off this shit. Now that we were home and it was just us she seemed a little apprehensive again. I kept myself busy making her dinner while she sat and watched. When she was finished with her meal of steak and vegetables, which I had to practically browbeat her into eating, I set her up in front of the computer with her homework. I couldn't put it off any lo

"Kevin what's up, you seen him yet?" We met outside her old dorm room where the asshole would most likely be headed. Most people didn't know where my condo was so they couldn't have sent him there; I'm thinking this was probably the best bet. That was another thing I knew was burning the shit out of Mackenzie and the others who were holding out hope for a repeat. I'd never taken anyone home with me. I always went to their room. Even then with me not looking for permanence I always knew my place was off limits. I'm glad I'd kept things that way because true to female form that had been one of the first things my baby had asked when I invited her to spend the night. Had I ever had anyone else there? It felt good telling her no, that she was the first and the last. That the bed she slept in had never been used for anything but my sleep. "Nah, not yet, but he should be here soon, the last word was that he landed and got a rental and was headed this way."?I had the

??Nothing registered until I felt tears on my temple, and small hands clutching at me. ?"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry, please come back, please Talon, please come back now." She kept saying the same thing over and over again until my head finally cleared. I was on the lawn standing over a motionless Robert Stark. My team surrounded me, my girl was practically climbing me and I had a death hold on her. ??My body literally dropped, like all the energy had just suddenly left me. I had to sit down next to the asshole with my girl in my lap. "It's okay baby, it's okay, I'm okay, stop crying now." I rocked her back and forth with what little energy I had left in me. ??Her smell seemed to be calming me down more than anything else as I buried my face in her neck. I have to ask dad about that shit, this one mate thing seemed to have some serious side effects. I never lost time like that before. I have no idea what the fuck just happened. I only know that the dar