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- By Your Side (Part
6)
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- Last time:
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- Each one of them went to
other part of the room and started to look around. Nora looked
in his drawers while Bo looked between the shelves. Bo pulled
out a small box. He turned to look at Nora.
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- B: Look at this.
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- She turned to look at him
and examined the box he held.
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- N: Cocaine?
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- Bo nodded. He put the box
back at the place he found it. He would need a search warrant
for that.
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- B: Have you found anything?
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- Nora picked her head up from
the drawers.
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- N: No. Not yet.
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- When she searched into the
last drawer she froze.
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- N: Oh my God.. oh my God..
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- Bo went to Nora’s side.
She was trembling. Tears began to roll down her face.
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- B: What is it, Nora? What
did you find?
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- Bo looked at the drawer.
He bit his bottom lip. He wrapped his arms around her when she
leaned her head against his shoulder and cried.
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- Nora clung to his body. She
asked herself many times if she was ready for this. And now she
finally knew the answer of that. No. The answer was no. She wasn’t
ready for this. She wanted to run away. She felt she was choking.
She couldn’t breathe anymore. She felt that the walls were
closing her in. She needed air.
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- Bo could feel only the anger
that was racing into his body. His gaze never left the drawer’s
contents. God, the man was sick, he fought his anger back. He
looked carefully at what he saw in the drawer. Examining it.
He felt sick. His arms wrapped Nora tight.
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- B: This son of a bitch! I’m
going to kill him.
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- Nora turned her look at Bo.
She saw anger in his face. She was afraid. She didn’t know
what he was able to do to him. She wiped her tears and put her
hands on his face. Her eyes were begging to him.
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- N: No, Bo. Take me home.
Please take me home...
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- Looking into her eyes, Bo
couldn’t feel only anger anymore. He felt pain. Deep pain
into his chest. He pulled Nora to him and held her tightly as
her tears kept rolling down her cheeks.
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- B: I’m so sorry, Nora.
I’m sorry...
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- She looked into his eyes,
her tears kept rolling down, her knees barely kept her steady
on the ground and mixed feelings of pain and anger filled her
body, mind and heart.
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- N: Just take me home...
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- Bo nodded. He understood
her need to go as far away as she could from this place. He,
too, felt the same need to leave. To get air. To clean his mind
and let go of those feelings. Words were unnecessary now. He
squeezed her hand and leaded her out. Once she felt the cold
air, once she could feel the fresh air of the night she felt
relieved. They settled into the car and sunk into the deep silence
that overcame them.
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- They came into Nora’s
house. Nora looked around the living room. It was the same place
where he attacked her. She rubbed her chest, trying to breathe.
She jumped when Bo touched the back of her shoulder. She turned
around, relieved that it was only he.
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- B: I’m sorry.
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- N: That’s ok.. It’s
just that I.. I’m tired. I think I’d better go to bed
now.
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- B: You’d better do that.
You need to rest, Red.
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- She nodded and smiled softly.
She couldn’t find the strength to speak. Bo watched her
as she went upstairs. He paced around her living room. He could
only think of what he would do to this bastard as soon as he
gets to put his hands on him, but he had to think clearly, he
reminded to himself. He had to follow the rules. He couldn’t
let his fury disrupt the investigation. He would have to use
his mind and not his heart now. He would make sure that Nora
gets justice. He stopped pacing when his eyes caught the picture
of Matthew. He softly smiled as he noticed the sparkle in his
son’s eyes. He couldn’t wait to tell Matt that he was
his father. For some reason he felt the need of telling him that
now more than ever. He just wanted to hold his son in his arms
and make up for their lost time. And thanks to his stupidity
he had a lot to make up for now. He took the picture and held
it in his hands. He would make sure that Matthew gets justice
too. He missed him. He was startled when Nora patted on his back.
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- B: Nora? What are you doing
here? I thought you said you were going to bed...
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- N: I was, but I couldn’t
stay alone. I feel weird and stupid.
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- B: Why? Because you’re
scared? Nora, you have all the reasons to be scared, it’s
natural.
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- N: Maybe.
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- She noticed the picture he
held and smiled. She traveled her finger on Matt’s face.
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- N: It’s my favorite
picture of him. He looks so happy, doesn’t he?
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- Bo smiled and nodded.
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- B: Yes, he does. It’s
a beautiful picture.
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- N: I miss him so much.
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- B: Me too.
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- Nora turned her look at Bo.
It felt good to hear him say that. She kept looking at him when
he sat down on the couch and continued to speak.
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- B: I can’t wait to have
him around here again. I can’t wait to hear him call me
daddy. I lost too much time with him already and I want to make
up for all this lost time.
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- Nora listened to him carefully.
It was the first time he told her what he really felt about Matthew
and now she felt guilty. She was the reason he couldn’t
have Matthew now. She never realized how selfish she was. She
walked to the couch and sat beside him. Looking deeply into his
eyes.
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- N: Oh, Bo, I’m so sorry.
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- B: Why?
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- N: Because it’s my fault
that we sent him to my parents, that you can’t spend more
time with him now. I’m so sorry.
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- Bo smiled softly and held
her hand.
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- B: Nora, don’t be silly,
it’s not your fault. You are the last person I can blame.
You’ve been so great since we found out the truth, you were
supportive and understanding. You let me spend time with him
and gave us the time to get to know each other. I will always
be grateful to you for that.
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- He paused for a moment. He
looked down. Their hands were linked together. She followed his
gaze. She could feel moisture in her eyes. He looked up again
and she followed his eyes again. Their eyes locked.
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- B: I’m the only one
to blame for what happened Nora, for losing this time with Matthew.
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- N: How can you say it, Bo?
You weren’t responsible for...
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- He cut her sentence.
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- B: Nora, I should have never
walked out on you that night, I shouldn’t have let it go
that far...
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- N: Bo, you were hurt. I don’t
blame you for leaving. I hurt you. We thought that I was carrying
someone else’s baby. You didn’t know that Matthew was
yours. You would have never walked out on us if you had known.
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- B: I didn’t leave because
of Matthew. I could have learned to love him and share him with
Sam, but I would never be able to share your heart with him too.
- Why did it hurt so much?
Nora asked herself. She looked into his eyes and saw regret and
pain. She never really gave Sam her heart. The only man she has
ever given her heart completely was Bo. She gave him her heart
long before she realized she fell deeply in love with him. But
they moved on, so why did it still hurt so much? And why could
she feel the need to hold him tight? To be in his arms? To feel
the warmth of his body? To feel his heart pounding against hers?
To feel like they were the only people in the world? To feel
loved by him? She closed her eyes. No. She couldn’t think
of that. She couldn’t let herself feel that way. It must
be the memories, she tried to convince herself. Remembering her
past with Bo always hurts... and she wondered why.
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- N: I didn’t know that’s
how you feel, Bo. We have never really talked about that...
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- Bo looked into her eyes.
It pained him so much to remember the past. He had regrets about
what happened between him and Nora, but he let it go long ago.
He put the past in the past and he decided to focus on his present.
Thinking about the past only hurt him. It hurt and pained him
to remember just as it hurt and pained him now to look how much
pain there was in Nora’s eyes. He couldn’t figure out
why it still hurt so much, even though he moved on. His eyes
examined her face. She was tired and her eyes were red of the
tears but she was still beautiful. So damn beautiful, he thought.
He wanted to reach to her. To feel her skin against his. To feel
her lips against his. To feel loved by her... He closed his eyes
tightly. You have to stop doing this, Buchanan, he told to himself.
Those feelings weren’t real, it was the situation, the closeness,
he didn’t really feel that, he couldn’t. Not now. It
was over. He didn’t really want to feel her against him...
or did he?
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- B: It doesn’t matter
now, Nora. We have other things to think about now.
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- Nora’s eyes wandered
around the room now. She couldn’t look into his eyes anymore.
She knew what he meant, what they had to talk about, but she
wasn’t sure she was ready to deal with what they found out.
It all happened so fast she hadn’t had the time to let it
come into her mind yet. Bo followed her eyes. He was sorry about
all she had to go through but he knew that the sooner they face
it the sooner this nightmare would be left behind them. He put
his hand on her face and forced her to look at him.
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- B: I know it’s hurt,
Nora, but we have to act fast. You said in yourself that he was
determined to get back at you, we don’t have time to waste.
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- N: I know that, Bo. You’re
right. Sometimes I can’t think clearly. I should stop thinking
with my heart instead of my mind. I want to get over with this
and move on with my life. I need to do that.
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- B: And always remember that
you’re not alone, Nora. I’m here with you..
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- N: I know that, thank you.
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- She paused. She took a deep
breath.
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- N: So what are we going to
do now?
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- B: We’ll go to talk
to Hank first thing in the morning and tell him everything we
found.
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- N: He will be furious if
he knows what we did...
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- B: Nora, he cares about you
very much, he will get over this.
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- Nora softly smiled.
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- B: We have to follow the
book so we have to get search warrant. After the cops find what
we found, we got him.
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- N: We don’t have any
cause to get the warrant, Bo, it will not be easy and you know
that. And even if we do get the warrant do you think it will
be enough to arrest him?
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- B: We found Cocaine there,
so in the worse case we can charge him for possession drugs,
but considering the drugs and what we found I think we can put
him in jail for a long time.
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- N: I hope so.
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- Nora felt nervous. She was
scared it wouldn’t be enough to catch him. She was a lawyer
and she dealt with that kind of stuff many times before, but
it has never been so hard as it was now. It was about her life
now, not some stranger’s life. Was Bo right? He was excellent
cop, but she knew that he was involved too much. What if he couldn’t
think clear enough? What if it wasn’t enough to arrest him?
But, for God’s sake, he was sick, she knew it now, and they
had to catch him, it must be enough. Seeing the old newspapers,
the old articles about that trial she lost, the trail that put
him in jail, the way he destroyed her face in each one of her
photos there. And there were recent articles about her too. About
the `Woman of the year`, her train accident and other recent
stuff about her. But most of all, what caused her tremble was
her photo and the subtitles on it `Fucking bitches always get
what they deserved`. She shivered as she remembered reading that.
She got up and paced around the room. She couldn’t start
crying again. She had to be stronger. She had to do something.
She had to think of something else. Anything but this. Bo watched
her carefully. He knew he had to do something, to say something.
He knew she needed something else to focus on right now. He just
needed to figure out what could it be. He smiled softly.
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- B: Are you hungry?
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- Nora looked at him surprisingly.
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- N: Hungry? Now?
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- B: Yes. I just realized that
we skipped dinner and I thought..
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- Nora smiled softly. She knew
what he tried to do and she was grateful to him for that. He
always knew what she needed. He knew her so well.
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- N: Bo, it’s almost 2
a.m. now! We can’t eat now..
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- Bo got up and walked towards
the phone. He wasn’t really hungry but if that were what
Nora needed to distract her mind he would do it.
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- B: Hmmm.. what about Pizza?
I can really use a pizza now to sooth my stomach.
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- He smiled and Nora smiled
him back.
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- N: You’re crazy. Where
will you buy a pizza at this hour?
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- B: I’m sure we can find
some place that has 24 hours delivery. C’mon, we can have
junk food celebration!
- She looked at him confusing.
Celebrate? She had nothing to celebrate. Her life was a wreck
now. But she did feel she could use a pizza too. She looked at
him seriously.
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- N: Celebration? Bo, I’m
not sure I have what to celebrate now.
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- B: Of course you do. Tomorrow
this nightmare is going to be behind you and you can move on
with your life. And mostly, you can have Matthew around again.
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- Nora smiled as he said Matthew’s
name. She really did have a reason to celebrate. She had her
son. Bo smiled when he saw her smile. He was amazed how her eyes
sparkled again whenever he just reminded his name. It was pure
love. And he felt that love too. It was amazing how this little
boy could make them smile even in times like this.
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- B: That’s it! What better
reason do you have than celebrate our son?
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- Our son. Why did it sound
so good? They both wondered. Matthew was their son and it was
the best feeling in the world.
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- An hour later they both stuffed
pizza into their mouths. Eating pizza and drinking root beer,
why did it feel so natural? Nora wondered. Bo enjoyed looking
at her eating. Some things never change, he smiled. So many things
had changed between him and Nora, but this old feeling he could
feel now had never changed. It still felt good, comfortable to
be with Nora and share pizza with her. They would have a rough
day tomorrow and he was glad that he could distract Nora’s
mind for a while.
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- Watching her smile made him
feel happy. All he ever wanted for her was to be happy. She looked
at him and started to talk between the bites she took.
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- N: So are you going to tell
me what happened between you and Gabby?
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- Bo looked at her surprisingly.
He wasn’t ready for that question.
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- B: Where did this question
come from?
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- N: You don’t talk about
her and you spend most of your time here with me, I figured that
something wasn’t right between you two.
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- B: We broke up.
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- Nora put the pizza aside.
She began to sorry she brought up the subject.
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- N: Oh, I’m sorry, I
didn’t know...
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- B: You have nothing to be
sorry for, Red. I should have done it long ago. It wasn’t
right between us, it didn’t feel right and it was the best
thing to leave.
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- N: Yeah, but you loved her,
it must hurt..
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- B: No, I thought I loved
her, but I’ve never really loved any other woman since..
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- He stopped. Since you, Red,
he continued his sentence in his mind. He took another slice
of pizza and tried to change the subject.
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- B: This pizza is so good,
isn’t it?
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- Since what, Bo? Nora asked
herself. You’re doing it again, Nora. Get over this. You
moved on. Just stop thinking about him. Leave it at that.
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- N: Yeah, it’s great.
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- She sipped her beer and looked
at him. They were silent. Both felt uncomfortable. After a while
Nora started to talk again.
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- N: Bo, as soon as it over
I want us to talk to Matthew and tell him the truth.
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- She smiled softly and he
looked at her.
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- N: I want him to know that
you’re his father. I want him to know what a wonderful father
he has. I want him to be like you, Bo. I want you to hear your
son calls you daddy.
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- Bo felt moisture in his eyes.
He was so happy. So grateful. He smiled.
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- B: Thank you, Red. There
is nothing else in the world that I’d like more than to
hear him call me daddy. Thank you so much.
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- N: You deserve to be happy,
Bo. I want you to be happy. That’s all I’ve always
wanted for you.
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- B: I want you to be happy
too, Nora.
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- Nora smiled and continued
to eat her pizza. A few minutes later she threw the piece of
pizza she had in her hand on the table and leaned back against
the back of the couch. Touching her stomach.
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- N: God, I’m full. That
was great, Bo, thanks.
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- Bo wiped his mouth with a
napkin and then leaned back too. He turned to look at her and
their eyes locked together. They were only inches apart. He smiled.
They stared at each other for a while. His hand trembled. He
wanted to touch her. To feel her. To have her.
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- B: I think we’d better
go to sleep now; we’re going to have one heck of a day tomorrow...
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- He was so close she could
feel him breathing. She wanted to reach to him. To feel him.
To have him. Her lips parted. She got up. She had to stop having
these feelings.
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- N: Yeah, you’re right.
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- They woke up early the next
morning and headed to the station. Bo knew that Hank would be
mad at him for risking Nora and going undercover with her, but
he also knew that he would understand him. They walked into Hank’s
office. Hank noticed by their looks that something was wrong.
They filled him in and he reacted in the same way Bo knew he
would. He was furious at them, especially at Bo, but he understood.
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- H: It’s not going to
be easy to get this search warrant, you realize that, right?
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