Right, of course. Staying here they were too close, too easily reachable, and while it would work for a weekend it wouldn’t be long before someone came knocking. Away it was, then.

She listened to him talk, let him suggest his own piece of paradise, noted how he sighed almost dreamily and decided right then that she would make it happen. Closing her own eyes again as he kissed her neck, she continued to stroke her fingers soothingly through his hair. “I don’t know, it sounds nice for a change. And I could use a tan.” In the end she would go wherever he wanted, just like she knew he would do the same for her. Cold and snow weren’t exactly ‘his kind of weather’, but he would go in a heartbeat if she asked.

Apparently that wasn’t the problem, though, and she tried to keep her breathing steady even as he hesitated to finish his statement. Perhaps she should have expected his answer, but somehow she hadn’t.

“I can persuade them.” Maybe they would release him into her custody. She could send them updates on his progress, she knew how to cheat the system so they couldn’t track her location. Maybe that would be enough.