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holding a finger out to my face. “Did you find your way back to young Cooper?”
    “I am going to fucking kill you.” I grabbed his hand, feeling a sickening rage coming over me, and dragged him from the room. He tried to pull me into him and he tried to be funny. He slurred and joked as we stumbled down the hallway. He was too loud and too crazy. Luce cleared the room behind us and the hallway as we walked out. When we stepped out over the dead man, Servario burst out laughing. He pointed at the body, laughing and stumbling like a fool. I passed my boob grenade to Luce. “Make it rain.”
    She ran back inside. I hurried away from the building as an explosion ripped into the night.
    When we were past the car with the dead driver in it, we slowed down. Dragging Servario’s drunken ass was crazy. “He’s lost his fucking mind,” Luce mumbled as we staggered down the road.
    He wrapped his arms around us both, holding us and staggering. “You fucking idiots. You fucking stupid women have fucked this up, and I can’t afford to lose my credibility on this. So you will stagger with me down the road until we can steal a car and get to the plane. You will shut your fucking mouths, apart from giggling like schoolgirls. Do you get me?”
    We both nodded, afraid of the tone in his voice.

 
 

Chapter Seven

 
    Roofie means I love you

 
    The shaking of the plane and the lack of sleep had made me twitchy. I hadn’t eaten in ages and my strength had waned. When I got inside the hotel room in Belgium, I flopped onto the bed. It wasn't the VIP suite in the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. It was a dumpy hotel that none of us would be caught dead in, in the real world. But this wasn't the real world.
    This was a tired place where I had no idea if I would ever recover from. I closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
    When I woke, a man was sitting in the corner in the armchair. I sat up quickly when I realized I wasn't dreaming and there truly was a man there. The light coming in from the streetlamps shone enough for me to see it wasn't the man it should have been.
    “You fucked it up. You were supposed to stay in the car,” Servario muttered.
    I nodded slowly. “I realize that but the driver tried to rape me.”
    “What?”
    “You didn't notice the dead driver in the car we walked past?”
    “You killed the driver?” His tone dropped off like he was cluing in. He got up, climbing onto the bed. “I assumed my reputation would buy you safety there. I didn't know. I left you in the car like a possession, to show them who you were to me.”
    “Great.” I nodded again. “I have to go. Coop is just helping those kids and meeting me back home.”
    He crawled over me, pushing me back on the bed with a light shove. “Did you truly mean what you said to me about La La Land?”
    “Yeah. I truly meant I love you. I do, even if you’re complicated and you live in a disturbing world and you always leave me to fend for myself.”
    “We live in the same world, Evie.”
    I shook my head, staring up into his dark eyes. “No, we don't. In my world I still would have risked everything to save those kids. I never could have drank just down the hallway from that. You walked past it, you didn't care. I am not a monster, I can’t be one.”
    “I was leaving tracking devices and audio as a favor for the CIA. They are busting the human trafficking ring up. Granted, they aren’t getting all of it now that we won’t have surveillance because you blew the building up.” He sighed. “We had a reason for being there.”
    “But again, you didn't tell me. You say you trust me but you don't. You never let me in on the things that are happening.”
    “You have no poker face. You see kids in trouble and overreact.”
    “Overreact to human trafficking? You are an asshole who doesn't care about anything,” I growled as I sat up, shoving him off me. I turned and climbed off the bed, storming from the room to find Luce. I didn't care that I was