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"Lydia had nothing to do with it!" I yell in Spanish, as if I’et topunished is true and already I’ my reaction Because it’s exactly what she wanted to see This entire situation just changed in the worst way It’s not just about me anymore I should’ve known this before I crawled out thatJavier and Izel kne close Lydia and I becaive up and go back, but noith the Aer in the cards
"Stop talking and tie her hands behind her," the American says from behind
"Fine Go ahead Do what you ith her," I say to Izel as I walk around behind her chair "I got out She didn’t It’s sad, but there’s nothing I can do about it I’ back to that place, not even for her" I hope she believes me, that I don’t care what happens to Lydia, so "
The unnatural frustration in the Aet both of our attention Izel and I look over at hiht just shoother wrists together The A for her to slip up and give hi the se it into a knot each round Once the rope pinches her skin, Izel tosses her head to the side in an atteer "Watch it," she snaps and her long black hair falls to one side around her face I tie the last knot even tighter, just because I can If looks could kill, I’d be dead ten times over
"Now step away from her," the American instructs
He stands froated suitcase out from underneath it
I step away and with the backward tilt of his head I continue to follow his instructions and make my way over next to him He takes my wrist in one hand and his suitcase in the other and walks h to pick his bag up fro black coat Surely he sees it, but I get the feeling he’s leaving it draped over the back of the chair on purpose
"I’ll kill you if you leave ritted teeth, but her threat cole in the chair, trying to work her hands free "Don’t leave me like this! How can I tell Javier what you want if I’ht fills the rooers froet yourself free in time," he says and steps out the door with me at his side "Inform Javier that I will be in touch and not to lose or discard the cell phone number that I last called hiers and I hear Izel’s livid voice screauides er’s seat and closes the door behind me once I’m inside The trunk pops open and he hides his suitcase and black duffle bag away inside of it
I hear four muffled shots outside the car as he takes out two tires on each of the trucks parked out front
He shuts the driver’s side door and looks over at me
"Put on your seatbelt," he says and looks away fronition
The car hums to life as I click my seatbelt in place quickly
"You shoot women," I say quietly
He backs out of the dirt-covered space in front of the odd roadside motel, which really looks more like a five-room shack
The Aain "Flesh wounds," he says and shifts the car into Drive "She’ll live And that one was hardly a wo up a cloud of dirt behind us
He’s right in that aspect Izel is a woman, but she doesn’t deserve to be treated like one and it’s her own fault
As we’re speeding down the dusty highway and away from the motel, the American reaches into the console between us and retrieves a ser over the screen, the speakerphone comes on and suddenly Izel’s voice fills the car I’ht, there was a reason he left his long coat in the rooh the tiny speaker:
"He’s gone! Get up and untiesound e, unidentifiable noises
"Get lance over at the American whose eyes remain fixed on the road out ahead, but his ears are fully open to the voices in his hand He knew He knew all along that one of the to be dead I shudder to think I walked over his body, or around it, so close he could’ve grabbedand cracking noises funnel through the speakerphone I hear Izel tell theto Javier:
"Sí, Javier He took her He killed the to hear him, threatens her on the other end of the phone
"Sí," she says gravelly as if forcing herself to agree though it takes everything in her to do so
Then I hear a loud shot and shortly after a thump! and I can only assume that she just killed the er for whatever Javier said
Everything becomes quiet now Maybe Izel left the roo, only the low static huh not fas the phone up, rolls the n beside hihway Then he makes a sharp U-turn and drives in the opposite direction
"I take it you didn’t hear what you wanted to?" I ask carefully
His right hand drops fro
"No," he answers