"I was, he shouldnt have split us up." The anger that Nick had all those
years ago was starting to come back. "If he didnt do what he did you wouldnt
have been killed. Then we wouldnt be going through this right now..."
<< "For the pain." she said quietly, seeing the fact it had hurt him in his
eyes and the way he... he was keeping a kind of emotional distance from her.
Knowing Nick like she did she could well imagine what he had gone through --
and that it was all coming back to him now because she was back. She wished
she could just erase it all away and see that boyish grin again, without the
hint of pain now in his brown eyes. She sighed and put her forehead against
his "And you were probably mad as hell at Derek...." She was pretty sure he
would have been. Nick was in charge of security and it had always been his
policy that when faced with that level of danger, partner up. But at the
time, and with the urgency of finding the girl... it would have been
impossible to cover that much ground and partner up between three people.
Had the roles been reversed.... it would have killed a part of her if he had
been the one that died that day.... >>
