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Servario folded his ar here, Servario?"

He laughed, "I wanted you to knoho put the hit on your family and your home He wanted to clean up any mess, just in case Ja pillow talk This is the nate you, marry you, and pretend to love you I wanted you to know that if this very man here were dead, you would be safe, forever You and your children The suspicions die with him He and Mary were the only ones who kneho James really was"

I stepped forward, "Why?"

He sneered at hiirl"

I shot hi shook with another explosion

"Why did you make him marry me? Why would you do that?"

He scoffed, "Ask your father"

My finger jerked, shooting the asped Servario cocked an eyebrow, "You are juet inforain, "I want the fk out of here" Thepastto want to knohy he wasn’t interrogated"

Coop ignored hiun, "You okay, Evie?"

I shook o back ho to tell ot fro that concerns you"

"See ya ’round" I turned and walked out of the roohed, loud and confidently "Evie, wait"

I turned, pointing ain, I will kill you"

His eyes gave it all away He knew he’d fked up royally He had risked me, my life, and my sanity and he knew it

He looked haunted as he nodded once and gave Coop, who couldn’t look more confused, a soft sain and pulling h the hotel A un and shot hiht

Coop look horrified, "Evie?" I ignored him and walked for the stairs He pulled me in a different direction, "Back stairs"

I let him pull me to the back stairs We ran down theot inside, Jack looked back froht smile but he didn’t He passed me an iPhone, "Press send"

I looked at the hotel and pressed send I didn’t think about the girls or Servario or anything else I pressed send and blew it to the heavens

Jack drove calmly away, not suspicious at all I stared out theat the fiery blast and knew, he had gotten away Nothing could kill hi about James He never was the monster in the movie who couldn’t die That had been Servario

Jack drove us to the docks, away froot out and walked casually down to a large fishing boat Moot down into the hull The boat started, I didn’t even knoas driving it I didn’t care My ot there, I started to cry I couldn’t stopcry

I just folded into my mother and let her soothe hed, "They’re all dead now"

I shook ot any inforhed, "You are going to have to learn to keep that trigger finger in check Save it for after you get the inforhed, "What if anyone else knows about Montana, the kids, me and you, Servario, and Dad? What if Steve told people? We’ll never be safe Did you feed the cat before you left? He will pee and poo on everything if he doesn’t get food"

She smoothed my hair and kissed the top of arcoat it She was just there, "I fed the cat a huge bowl of food, lanced over at the blonde as she walked froe scars and scabs fro her face clean She looked less like a junky, only a little "Do I know you?"

She smiled, "You do not" She looked so familiar

My mom pulled me back and held a hand out to the blonde, "This is Elise, she is part of the Burrow"

I sat frozen, not really sure what to say or do If she was part of the Burroouldn’t she be in Japan and not on a boat leaving Croatia?

Elise laughed, "I have been team Burrow for some time I only came out of my forced retirement to help out with this" She winked at me, "Servario and I were friends once"

My nose wrinkled involuntarily, h I nodded, "Nice toback to Japan with your dad" I gave my mom a look She nodded, "He’s alive I wasn’t sure but Elise saved him She convinced them we needed help with Anderson and Mary and that Servario was self serving on this one"

I gave her a look, "He got a phone It had so on this one"

Elise held her hands up, "Hey, I’m not here to rat anyone out I saw Servario blow up in that hotel That’s the story the Burrow is getting from ave me a softened look, "Like I said, Servario and I were friends once"

I looked at her blonde hair and wondered if that was the reason he hated blonde hair and told me never to fall in love with him or make him love me I almost hated her for all of it