She was out of control. She already had been, but this proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he needed to get her out of Alexandria before she killed herself.
In the darkness, she had been so vulnerable. He could have slit her throat or shot her dead, and she wouldn’t have been able to do a thing. She thought she was invincible, but all it took was one mistake, one oversight -
Like the one that she’d made tonight. It had ended with a bullet to the gut, and she was lucky to be alive.
He should say so, he thought as she stared up at him with that infuriatingly impish smile. He needed to say it, needed her to know that she was always in danger of death and maiming and that she needed to leave this life behind before it took the last of what little she had remaining.
“You’re lucky,” he s
