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“Please tell me Liliana doesn’t have someone else,” I groan. “It’s not that I don’t want her to be happy, but?—”

“You may kill the person just for the principle of it,” Dad finishes. “No, Liliana met her soulmates. There’s no one else but you and Rachelle for her. I don’t think you have even a chance of any competition.”

Relaxing completely to force the strain and worry from my body, I nod. Santa Barbara, you’re not fucking ready for me. No one fucks with my girl and lives to tell the tale.

CHAPTER 9

THEO

“Liliana,” I groan, watching as she hits the call button to insist on being released. “Can you just be patient?”

“I have people to torture, I don’t have that virtue in my body, Theo,” she snarks. “What am I supposed to do when this happens to someone else? You heard the doctor, it’s definitely a blend of Rohypnol and GHB.”

“Can you even walk?” Elijah asks pensively, watching as a nurse comes in to see Lili.

“I feel wonderful, no ill effects from the drugging. Can I leave please?” Lili asks, lying her ass off.

“I bet wonderful is a stretch,” the nurse says with a snort. “I’ll get the doctor to sign your discharge paperwork. There’s no reason to keep you.”

“What if she, I don’t know, has a seizure or something?” Jared asks, tossing his hand up in disgust.

“Guess you should watch her… or something,” the nurse says with a smirk, walking away.

“I don’t need that,” Liliana says, shaking her head. “I do, however, need to change, out you go. I’ll call a car to come get me.”

“A ride-share?” Elijah scoffs. He’s still a rich boy, regardless of his current financial portfolio. “Absolutely not. We’ll take you home.”

“I don’t really want you to know where I live,” she says honestly. “Now, I’m changing.”

Lili unties the back of her gown, and we hightail it out of the room. It’s not because she isn’t beautiful, but none of us want to be stabbed for seeing her naked. Standing in the hallway with the door closed, we wait for her to be done.

“You don’t think she’d go out the window, do you?” I muse, glancing at my watch.

“For fuck’s sake, she’s had five minutes to change, I’m going back in,” Jared mutters, feet already moving. “If she stabs me, then so be it.”

We’re on the first floor, jumping out the window is something that she’d totally do. Twisting, I pop my head into the door as Jared catches her before she disappears out the opening of the window.

“We’re going to have our hands full,” I grumble as the nurse walks back in to watch Jared dump Lili into a chair.

“Dude, easy,” the nurse admonishes. “Do I need to call security, Liliana?”

“They probably wouldn’t leave even then,” she sighs, glancing over the paperwork she’s handed.

A couple of signatures later, we force her into a wheelchair to roll her out to our car.

“You look so cute in there,” I tease her.

“I hate you,” she grumbles. “I need to find a place for interrogation outside of my usual ones.”

“That sounds ominous,” Jared mutters, helping her inside the vehicle. “How bloody is this torture getting?”

“If you have to ask, then you have your answer,” Lili says as we enter the car.

“We may know a place,” Elijah says slowly.

Glancing at him as I pull away from the curb, I raise my brow. “Please enlighten us,” I tease him.

“Well, we have a section of the basement that we cleared for private matters,” he reminds me, glaring at me to remember.