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I rested my chin on the floor and Camden did the same I leaned forward and kissed him, then took his hand inin the darkness, and waited Waited for signs of life We waited until we fell asleep, Travis’s house lulling us into dreamland

CHAPTER TWELVE

Scattered Spanish entered ured out that this was reality and I needed to wake up Camden’s hand on my face helped too

My eyes flew open and I i down on my stomach on the loft of Travis’s library Camden was across fro un He implored me with eyes not toto still my heart, and listened

A bunch offrom outside the room, most likely from outside the house My suspicions were cleared up when I heard the front door slam and sorily

Travis

I knew that voice too well I had to fight against the urge to pick up un, leap off the balcony and hunt him down It would be so simple I’d probably die in the process but for a split second I didn’t care I only wanted hih htabout hts went to hiht, dried mud caked on in splotches all over ourselves

There was so past the library and stopping not too far away Perhaps by the laundry room I prayed they wouldn’t need any towels

"Is everything all right, sir?" the person asked in a near perfect American accent

"No, it’s not fine," Travis answered rather snidely "I don’t understand how they haven’t been found yet When was the last tiuascalientes," the --"

"They should have died They should have been in that car I don’t understand how so"

"At least they were heading north Not coive a shit if they were co dead so I don’t have to worry about theain They made me look like a damn idiot The whole cartel, we looked like damn idiots All of us"

"If you don’t think they’re co here, then why don’t you just …"

A pause "Just what? Kill her? What kind of barbarian do you think I am? She’s my wife"

The ife stabbedabout my mother Could he?

"I don’t ured froht Froenda"

Travis chuckled enda I will deal with Amelie when I am ready to deal with her Until then, keep her down there" He grunted, his footsteps echoing down the hall "Fix me an omelette, would you? It would be nice if someone here wasn’t completely incohts flew into h that er and my father had died But he had mentioned she was "down there" which I had to assume ave us a direction to go in and I could try and make sense about all the other shit later

Then there was the fact that he didn’t once mention Gus

At least Este’s hunch about Javier not being expected here was true Then again, if he said the last place that we’d been spotted was Aguascalientes, then whatever happened to Javier and the crew out there in the jungle wasn’t orchestrated by Travis

Whichfroaze, he was realizing the sa had happened to Javier

We were set up

They had planned for us to come here

And here is exactly where ere

Motherfucker

I was pretty sureat o fucking apeshit I was ready to lose un and put his other hand to my face and heldto be okay"

I tried to shaketo be okay We know your et her out"

"We were set up," I hissed harshly "And Gus?"

"We’ll get him too"

"Where is he?"