A/N – ok so I'm back in the swing of things! YAY! The next few parts are going to be fun to write!! Thanks for the reviews!! Takersgurl35 has been a mad big help to me with helping get me kick started and encouraging me!! Thanks!!!! Please read and review!!

CHAPTER 10

Lily lounged around so far so good, she had checked the traps and none had been set off though some were deadly for the person who tried to get through them and some were nasty enough to put someone in hospital for a while, but with the people following her giving no mercy why should she?

Although she had less painful ones for the doors due to the fact that she knew mark would be home in a few days and she didn't want him to be hurt…too much. Part of her wished he could feel the pain she felt when he yelled down the phone. But she knew he had been hurt by her leaving and holding back the truth, she would have done the same.

She changed into her regular clothes after showering and headed downstairs to the kitchen out the back of the house.

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Mark jumped in the truck his best mates had dropped at the airport for him and sighed, off until further notice, nothing to distract him for falling apart…again.

He took the long drive back to his house, it was nearing the middle of the day and the heat was bearing down on him through the windshield and making him sweat. Bloody weather.

He pulled up and opened his security gate and drove the truck up to his front porch, ahh good ole home.

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Lily had been exploring the house after she had changed into short shorts and a tank top due to the heat. She was rifling through her things upstairs when she heard a loud crash and a stream of cussing. Grabbing her knife she ran down the stairs prepared for a fight when she noticed the large figure on the floor.

She grimaced as she saw mark grasping his hand in pain. She smiled a bit before approaching him.

"Mark" she said softly

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Marks head jerked up as he cradled his throbbing hand.

"Lily what the fuck are you doing here! In my house no less!" he spat

"I did what I do best, I run and use my skills to survive, breaking and entering happens to be one of those skills" she replied in an equally venomous tone.

"Lying and betrayal two others?" he hissed

"Listen you un-evolved excuse for a human being, I did this to protect you! I haven't lied so to speak merely hid a few facts from you so YOU didn't get hurt…I have no doubt that Maria and Ashley understood it" she retorted harshly.

"BUT they didn't fall in love with you! I DID, I was the one who had to read that my girlfriend, the woman who stole my heart decided to up and leave to PROTECT me! I can fucken handle any of those fuckers! You should have trusted me!" his hand was now throbbing along with his head that was spinning from anger and pain

"FUCK YOU MARK, I fell in love to you know! There two sides! I fell for you all the time knowing it would endanger you! I couldn't bear to tell you, I could be the cause of your death! I left trying to help, Do you have any idea how hard it was for ME to walk away? I had to physically write the letter and sneak around placing it for you and the girls! " she paused "I Have faced many men who want me dead and it was not as hard as re living all the shit from my life as I wrote those letters. And nowhere near as hard as leaving the letters for you guys to find" she whispered

"Lily you lied to me, was any of it real?" he asked stoically

"Listen, you can bitch all you want it was all real except the name, so when you want my help to fix your hand…and you can talk to me civilly call out for me…until then don't touch any of the windows or doors, they are much worse than a taser rigged door handle!" she spat heading to the kitchen.

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Lily huffed as she sat on the chair, bloody over grown brute; she felt just as much pain if not more than he did when she left. SHE was the one who had people trying to kill her SHE was the one who had defended herself for so long and escaped death so many times; SHE was the one who had left to protect him! And here he was bitching because she was looking out for him, men…who the fuck needed them? She sighed she did, she needed mark like she needed oxygen. It was killing her to be so blunt and mean to him but he needed to see that the people following her were a lot worse!

She jumped when Mark came stumbling into the kitchen cussing about his hand.

"Sit" she sighed and headed to the cupboard to get a bowl of cold water and some ice, she filled to bowl and put the ice in it before heading over and placing his hand in it. She had set the taser to MAX when she rigged and it had left a small burn mark on his hand.

"The taser works, I guess…it was on high, the water will cool the burning down but the charged particles running through your body have to leave on their own." Lily explained as mark let out a small sigh of relief.

"Why in the hell have ya booby trapped my house woman" his voice was calmer, the shock of the taser rigged door had made him re think a little while he sat on the floor earlier. If she had rigged the place something really shitty had to be going down.

"For safety reasons, more mine than yours…they found me at my old place, they don't know where you live…so I decided to come here, it would give me enough time to set some traps and prepare…that and I knew you were coming home" she added quietly

Mark smiled a little, she had wanted to see him "Look, I know I was harsh and pissed off and to a degree I still am but YOU should have talked to me, I'm here now anyway and you had to explain anyway. Point is WE are in this together"