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Epilogue

Steph POV

The cop had put up crime scene tape all around my apartment, letting me know that I wouldn't be able to stay there to night.

Great.

Then I felt an arm settle on my shoulders. I turned around to see Ranger standing there.

"Babe."

"Ranger?"

"You can stay with me."

I couldn't help the smile that split my face. I was going to be staying with Ranger. I was no longer with Joe. This was going to be good and guilt free.

I went to go into my room to pack a bag, but I was stopped by a swarm of cops.

"You can't go in there." Carl told me.

"Why not? The body is in the kitchen."

Carl stood there and stared at me. Then he broke down into a smile. "Make it quick."

I came out of my room not five minutes later with everything I would need to spend the night at Ranger's. So maybe I forgot to grab my pajamas, I didn't think I'd need them.

Ranger led me out of my apartment to the elevator and then out of the building. He kept his hand on my arm the whole way down to his car. He even made sure I was buckled up before he pulled out onto Dunworth and made our way to Haywood.

Lester POV

I was stuck with Ram on monitor duty. The guy never talked, he just sits there staring at the monitors. He's like a machine.

I was spinning around in my chair occasionally glancing at the screens. On one of the revolutions I saw a car pull in to the garage. Ranger was back.

Good now they could grill him on went down at Steph's. Tank had called him and the only thing Ranger had told him was that there was trouble at Steph's but he had handled it.

I was just about to ask Ram to cover him so he could go talk to the boss, when he saw Ranger help Steph out of the car.

Interesting.

Ranger grabbed a bag out of the back that probably had Steph's clothes in it. Ranger hit the elevator button and while the two of them waited for it to come down Steph grabbed his hand. Ranger glanced at her but said nothing.

Looks like the big badass bounty hunter was crumbling.

The elevator doors slowly slid open, Ranger tugged Steph's hand and they moved into the elevator together. Ranger leaned back against the wall and Steph stood silently next to him.

I watched amazed when Ranger used her hand to tug her closer to him. He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her. Steph's arms wound their way around his neck, neither one of them noticing that they hadn't hit the button for seven.

Since they would be in the forever otherwise, I used the control to move the elevator to seven for them. I didn't think either one of them would notice.

The two of them didn't separate the entire time they were in the elevator. It wasn't until they were getting off that Ranger glanced at the cameras silently glaring at him. Shit it looked he knew that neither one of them had pressed the button for seven.

He was so dead.

Ranger POV

I was standing in the elevator with Steph plastered to me. I had my hands buried in her hair, when the elevator started to move. One of his guys didn't have the decency to look away while he was with Steph. If I ever found out who it was they were dead.

Steph however didn't seem to notice so I continued to kiss her.

When the elevator stopped on seven Steph pulled away and led the way to my apartment. Before getting off of the elevator I stopped to spare a look at the camera. He hoped that however had been watching got the idea that they weren't to mention this ever.

I didn't have a chance to dwell on it through Steph was pulling me through my apartment and straight to the bedroom.

I guess she had plans for tonight.

Not that I was complaining.

"Babe."

"Yes, Ranger?"

"I'm glad you remembered me."

Steph smiled at me. "Me too, Ranger, me too."

I hoped that whomever had been watching let everyone else know that I was offline for the night.

THE END

I was looking over my stories for spelling mistakes and such and realized that I didn't like the way like one had ended so I decided to write a little more. Let me know if you like this ending better or not.