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Chapter

Seventeen

RACHEL

Sasha’s gone upstairs to talk to Trick about intel they’re getting on Leone, so I take the opportunity to shower. My pussy tingles from where he gripped it after we had sex.

“Stay still for a few minutes,” he said, that giant hand cupping me, keeping his cum inside.

“It won’t work. Not yet.”

He didn’t answer. Just kept his hand there stubbornly. And deep inside me, I could’ve sworn I felt a sort of pinch and tingle, like something had changed. Just imagining things, I think. He wants it so much, and now that I get why, I find myself wanting it too sometimes.

I towel off and put on a robe. It’s too long on me and skims the tile, but I like the thickness of it. I dry my hair and puton mandarin-scented lotion. Then I hear him moving around the room. I’m glad he’s back. I don’t really care that we missed dinner at a nice restaurant. Getting to spend time alone with him, being close, is what matters.

I open the door and step out, but it’s not Sasha.

The blonde girl who’d been sucking Trick’s dick earlier is standing in the center of the room, and she’s not alone.

Alberto Leone is with her.

ANVIL

The alerton my smartwatch sounds. I frown and look down, thinking it can’t be right. She should be right below me. Twenty feet away at most. But the alert says she’s more than a hundred yards away and moving. She wouldn’t have left the hotel without telling me.

“Let’s go,” I say, cutting Trick off.

He falls in step with me as I haul ass out of the room and down the stairs. I open the door to our room and walk through. Her purse and phone are lying on the floor.

“He has her,” I say, my voice low and calmer than I feel. Usually, I am as cool as death when I’m under pressure, but losing her has my heart pounding. I jog down the hall and punch the button on the express elevator.

“What do you know?” Trick says.

“Nothing except that he has her, and she’s in a moving vehicle headed south.”

“C’s landed. You want me to text him?”

“Yeah,” I say as we get in the elevator. C’s been in New York, talking to some people to insure that if a war starts with the Leones, we have allies.

“The bounty on Leone just doubled, but I only pay out if I get her back alive. Spread the word. Nothing else matters. Only her.”

I call the burner phone Leone had days before. It’s been disconnected.

“I’ll navigate. You drive,” I say.

We get in the Rover. Trick peels out of the parking spot, and we hit the street like we’re the only ones on it and we’ve got places to go.

I watch the blip on the map.

Think, I tell myself because I know I’m distracted. Adrenaline is running through me like I’ve mainlined it. I don’t want to get into a high speed chase because I don’t want Leone to crash with her in the car. “We’re parallel to him. Slow down.”

“Which way? Left to cut him off?” Trick asks.

“Just drive straight. No chase. When he stops, we’ll box him in.” The words sound cool as fucking ice, but deep down I’m rattled. Did she fight when he tried to take her? Did he hit her? Hurt her? The locket doesn’t tell me if her heart’s still beating. And it can’t tell her that I’m half a block west andcoming to get her.

She knows, I tell myself.She knows I’m coming. She’s smart. She’ll do what it takes to survive until I get there.

RACHEL