I stepped onto the waiting elevator. “What if there’s a fire?” “I’ll save you.” His matter-of-fact tone had me arching an eyebrow. “You’ll save me? I didn’t think the bad guy ever saved anyone but himself.” He entered a code for the penthouse, and the elevator doors closed. “You think I’m the bad guy?” “I know you are.” I leaned against the back wall of the elevator as we moved smoothly upward. He leaned next to me. “Every bad guy is the hero of his own tale.” “Seriously?” I gawked at him in the reflective door. “The hero?” “I saved you from that dimwit, gave you a castle full of your favorite
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