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I frowned, "So I do that and I’ht he too wanted the Burrow thing I was clearly in over lanced back at me wickedly, "No I will own you, I won’t need those other things"

I shook my head, "You’ve preyed upontruth of it all was killing me inside He owned me He kissed me I had wanted it The way he had uttered the threat with such confidence was disturbing, and yet, I had wanted it

He suess on’t have any issues" He stepped out of the doorway and let rabbed my arm and held me to the side of hi I wanted that kind of warht, as it passed through ular, like he wanted to say so, but he didn’t He left it as another aard ers who acted like old lovers, but without reason

He released me and stepped back inside I noticed, as I walked to the elevator, thehallway Had they been there when I arrived? My skills needed honing

I was obviously out of ue

I pressed the elevator button and waited

The door behind ain Panic filled me when I heard him cross the hallway towards , he was going to do next He grabbedrip , trouble and teo He walked back to the room and closed the door, as the elevator arrived

"Ma’am"

I turned to see the bellhop I blushed and stepped inside

I pressed ainst the wall of the elevator, and waited for him to call me ma’am once gled to breathe until the elevator stopped on the main floor I walked across the lobby and tried not to feel like a whore, or have a panic attack

Coop was sitting outside in the valet parking with the cab I climbed in and noticed it wasn’t hiotten in the wrong cab

She was young, not quite thirty, and rinned back at me, "Hey, where to?" and winked

I shook my head, "What? Uhm, Jericho drive in Weston"

I didn’t knohat to think or do I didn’t have the et the Visa from the other envelope and pay with that

She drove for a block and then pulled into a car wash "Mind if I wash the car quick? Hit a bird"

I shook ain, "Supa" It was super, but she said it like a true Bostonian Was she a real cabbie? I was about to relax, when she held up a piece of paper as we got into the car wash I read the writing and pulled out the white envelope and passed it to her

She fished through it and then held up a s object She opened thea bit and tossed it out into the water She paused a second and then fired the white envelope out the

"Hey!" I said

She laughed, "The first one was the decoy There was one actually pasted into the envelope sea sneakier"

I s way in the last few years, I guess"

She rolled her dark-brown eyes, "I’m Luce"

"Evie"

She nodded, "I know I knew your husband"

I scoffed, "Yeah, apparently everyone did"

"Yeah I didn’t know hihed and handed me back the picture and the room key

I folded the picture and keycard and put them in my purse

In between the water and soap cycle, the car door opened Coop jumped in and slammed the door He shook his head and pulled off the wet coat he earing

"That was fun" he s? You should have tolda different cabbie Did you hide in the carwash all this ti around the car wash

"No Can’t always get the same driver Duh" He leaned forward and slapped Luce on the ars out?"

She stared back at him with a deadly stare Her body looked thicker than ent should look I bet she could bench press me I looked at my feeble arms and rea was relaxing, but I wasn’t building any bulk in those classes