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She smiled. “Sadly, no. To London. I promise that the minute you’re well enough, I will have Angel bring us there myself.”
“I love you, Eliza Marras.”
Her eyes filled with tears, but her smile was broad. “I love you, husband.”
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ELIZA
What I’d learned from Niven was that he suspected Levi was taken somewhere close by when their team determined he must’ve been abducted in Greece. They’d traced the most likely possibilities and miraculously received footage showing him being taken from a van into a warehouse just outside Belgrade, Serbia, where Levi was currently in hospital.
I also learned that Jekyll, the man Niv believed was the double agent, had been at the warehouse but was not among the dead.
According to Niven and Brand, who I was stunned to see, all hell was breaking loose. The information my cousin had shared in Levi’s apartment was wreaking havoc on intelligence agencies and governments worldwide.
Levi teased me about my fascination as I listened to everything as they explained it to him.
“It’s like watching a movie play out in front of me,” I told him. After which, he suggested we act out the film’s happy ending.
Levi was in hospital in Belgrade for four days before he was cleared for travel, mainly due to the concussions he’d suffered. When he learned he was being taken to yet another medical facility once we arrived in London, I witnessed some of the grizzly bear Kima had told me about.
Thankfully for everyone—most of all for the doctors and nurses treating him—he was released after three days. Besides setting the broken bones he’d suffered, he required stitches in several places plus ointments to help his wounds heal.
While I sat at his bedside, Harper pulled off a miracle for me with the help of several men in her parish. When she explained how they’d managed, I proclaimed it an act of God.
I couldn’t wait to show Levi my surprise when we landed in Algarve later today.
We were traveling with an entourage, as he’d called the people with us who would remain for the foreseeable future. As long as Jekyll remained on the run, Levi vowed he’d take no risk that might result in either Kima or me being put in danger. I knew it had taken him lowering his pride to admit he couldn’t protect me all on his own, although I believed he could.
“How are you doing?” I asked Kima when I left Levi and Hornet alone to chat.
“Fine,” she responded. After every interaction we shared, I left feeling as though I’d just spoken to a shell of her former self. She put on a brave face for Levi, but he could see through it too.
Even finding out she would finally get to see Casa Melro barely brought a smile to her face.
I hoped being there gave her the same kind of peace it gave Levi and me.
As I made my way to the aft of the plane, where Levi was still speaking with Hornet, I stopped to talk to Brand and Penelope, who were also traveling with us. She motioned for me to lean down.
“I can’t wait to see it,” she whispered.
“I know. I hope it made it intact.”
I squeezed her hand when I saw Hornet leaving the stateroom.
“There you are,” Levi said when I came in and sat beside him. He reached for me, and I shook my head. “No lap-sitting until your ribs are healed.”
“I suppose that also rules out lap-dancing.”
“Perhaps when we’re home, I can figure out a way to give you one without hurting you.”
He took my hand and pressed it against the bulge in his trousers. “The pain of not making love to you is far worse. At least let me see you naked.”
I stood, closed the stateroom door, and locked it. Levi moved from the chair to the bed and propped himself up against several pillows. Knowing the agony of not touching each other was already driving us both mad, I hurried to remove my clothes.
“God, I love you,” he said when I knelt beside him and opened my legs enough for him to touch me.
I nearly cried out when he pressed one finger inside my pussy while his thumb circled my tight bundle of nerves.