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“Hey Hey, are you okay? You’re looking a little freaked out”

One of them talks to me He thinks my panic is tied to the elevator ride, which it is, but only partially He has brown eyes, a soft, warm color that reminds me of melted chocolate He has die He looks nice The kind of nice I ht have dated once upon a time, before…before any of that became impossible

“I’m fine, thank you,” I tell him

“Good” The guy with chocolate eyes s sometimes helps my sister She’s not fond of elevators either”

He’s so sweet Way sweeter than I deserve, considering rins back—and then the doors open, and the four of them leave I ja I’ trapped with four strangers but still not great, and then, finally, it’s ht This hotel is much like any other I’ve stayed in The only difference about it, the thing that will define it fro as I live, is that I’m here for a very specific reason: to have sex with a total stranger And I’ it to find my baby sister

By the ti neatly on the hook behind the door, I’ what I’ve been told to wear—black lace Eli, the private investigator I hired to help me find my sister, wasn’t anyup

“So for, sweetheart Sometimes it takes a little more…persuasion to buy information like this I tell you what…I’ll share what I know in return for a little favour”

“What kind of favour?”

“You spread your legs for a paying custousting pig has the audacity to smile “Oh come now, Ms Romera Don’t look at me like that You want to find your sister, don’t you?”

And in the end, I’d agreed He was right; I do want to find Lex, and I’ll clearly do anything to make that happen Even if I’ll never be able to live with myself afterward