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to look out of the window.

“I am not as nice of a person as you think I am, Pearl,” he said softly.

“I think you are being too hard on yourself,” she said. “You are a wonderful man-”

“I killed him,” Rio said, cutting her off. “I killed her husband as revenge for murdering my sister. I didn’t just kill him. I tortured him brutally for days and days, before finally killing him. Still think I am a wonderful man?”

He turned around to look at her and realized that she walked over toward him.

“I don’t know why,” she whispered, standing close to him. “But my heart refuses to accept that you could be bad. I don’t know you well enough to pass any sort of judgment, but I know that you are a good person.”

Then, she took a step closer and before Rio could tell what was happening, she leaned over and kissed him. It took him a second to get over the shock of what had happened, before his arms wrapped around her and he melted into her kiss. He kissed her with a burning passion of a thousand fires, pulling her closer against his body. Her lips were soft and moist; her hands clutched the collar of his shirt as she pulled his body even closer.

He traced his hand over the curve of her hand, his hands reaching down to cup her ass. He softly bit her lip and she moaned in response. Rio used the opportunity to slip his tongue into her mouth and intertwine it with hers. Her hands trailed over his chest as if trying to remember every single muscle in his body. He pushed her against the wall, making out with her fiercely as a fire ignited deep in his soul. Nothing had ever felt so right and so amazing. He had never before felt the feelings that ignited in his chest, and he groaned against her lip.

“Rio, we can’t,” Pearl said, pushing him away suddenly. “I shouldn’t have done that. I am sorry, that was a mistake.”

“Pearl, wait,” Rio said, shocked at the sudden change in the situation.

“I should go,” she said, turning around and running out.

“Pearl, what happened?” Rio asked, running after her and wondering what he could have done wrong.

“Please, don’t try and stop me,” Pearl said, giving him a look filled with desperation before running out of the door, leaving a very confused Rio staring after her.

Chapter 16

Pearl quickly sat down in the car waiting for her outside and gestured at the driver to go. Ever since the incident where the man attacked her in the alley, Rio had insisted that a company car would drop her at home. She had protested, but he had been very insistent about it. She sighed as she leaned against the seat, her mind flashing back to what had just happened.

Her lips still burned from the kiss she had shared with Rio, but she couldn't avoid the fact that it shouldn’t have happened in the first place. For one, Rio was her boss and what she was doing was strictly unprofessional. Not only that, but she couldn’t continue to put Rio and Laura in danger. Slade was not going to give in easily, and he was going to give it everything he had to. He proved that today when he attacked Laura, purely as a means to get to Pearl. She knew he wouldn’t hesitate in using Rio or Laura again to try and get her to co-operate.

It was time for her to leave this town and run away. She was finally settling into this new town, and she had been hopeful that she would finally be able to start her life. She had been naïve and stupid to think that she could ever escape Slade. It was time for her to run once again and find somewhere else to hide. This was her life now, and she would have to accept it.

The hardest part would be making sure than neither Rio nor Laura got too attached to her. She didn’t want to hurt them when she finally left town. It was why she had pushed him away and why she hadn’t bothered explaining. It was best if he didn’t know that she was slowly starting to like him and wanted to be more than just his nanny. She would work for another week as she planned on where to go and how to escape. She knew Slade would not attack while she was in the