Okay, I might have gone a little overboard with Kate, but I wanted to do something for Joel. Of course, I wasn’t about to let him touch her, so I gave him the next best thing. When Kate left, Joel and I had our own intense little round of intimacy. Now we had everything packed and ready to go. The only thing we needed to was to pick out where we were going. Ace, Maverick, and Cole would stay behind to monitor Nick a little better since we weren’t prepared the last time. “Pick,” Joel said, running his hand through his hair. I stared down at the map of the United States that he laid out on the kitchen table. He really was willing to run away with me, even though I knew he wanted to stay behind and fight. Maybe this meant that he really did