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Taken from EOT:

I took Bob out of the back seat and walked him around on Spiro's front lawn so he could tinkle. I was thinking I'd move back into my appartment tomorrow. And maybe I'd get a Cello.

Not that I needed it. I was pretty darned interesting without it. Still, a Cello might be fun.

Ranger was standing, hands on hips, watching me.

"I feel better now"; I said to Ranger.

"Babe".

Divided

Chapter 1 : An inner fight

"Didn't I ask you to stay with Morelli?"

Okay, he was angry. No panik. There are 3rd-world-countries with a beautiful landscape.

"I know, but I hate to just stay and watch. I want to handle my problems by myself."

I crooked my head to one side. He once told me that I had power over him. So I maybe also have power over him, now. Eventually.

Ranger, now, had a little smile playing around his mouth and his eyes became dark.

Okay, what did I just do?

"Yes, babe, sometimes you do have the power, but mostly the power-thing is mine."

Excuse me? My mouth opened and my eyes narrowed.

He now had a full smile on his face, the whole 200 watts.

Ranger walked towards me, looking like a panther hunting his next meal.

I went back until I was pressed against Spiro's house. Within seconds Ranger was standing in front of me, his hands on the sides of my head, his body blocking me from the view of the police-men, that had just arrived. His smile vanished.

"I don't want you to think that you have to handle every problem by yourself. Besides it wasn't only your problem."

Huh? "Care to tell me whose else's?"

He put one hand to my cheek, his fingers stroking my hair behind my ear. Down hormones, This isn't the time.

"Babe, listen to me." He was back to smiling and I was thinking of telling him that he could help me by making me forget my problems. I knew he was good at that.

"It was my problem, too, because he tried to kill the woman I love. I can't use a bad reputation on the street, babe." Great reason. Again he annoyed me to hell right after he told me, that he loved me.

"You're an arrogant asshole," I said and tried to walk away, pushig at his arm.

He chuckled and drew me into his arms instead.

"I'm not finished with you yet, babe." Then he kissed me.

This kiss wasn't am appetizer. This was dinner. His hands stroked my back, while still pressing me against him and his tongue and mouth were feeding me hot and hungry kisses.

Inside of me there was a fight going on.

On one side there was Ranger. Not Ranger like my boss and the street-fighter. No, it was the Ranger who cared for me, who had recently been nearly crazy, thinking that something happened to me and the Ranger who told me once again that he loved me.

But it was also the Ranger who had said that he didn't do relationships and who had hurt me bad by sending me back to Morelli.

And on the other side there was my relationship with Morelli, that I began to doubt more and more in the last time.

Ranger broke the kiss and I laid my head into his neck, breathing in his smell.

"Belive me, I would love to take you home with me, now. To take you into my bed, make you forget all your problems and fears and then hold you save through the night."

I think, I would like that, too.

"But I won't. I don't want you to have any doubts." Huh? When did he make that decision. He had been flirting with me and kissing me all through my relationship with Morelli.

One of his hand was still stroking my back, the other one lying on my neck, when we heard a voice.

"I hope, I'm not interrupting."

Shit!

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