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"No"

"Give it toher car door "I want it as far away from me as--"

"Do you want him to think you’re in the middle of nowhere on the side of the road?" He shook the hand she was trying to pry open "Think"

Ava blinked, coe "He’d know I found it"

"Exactly We’re not going to take it back to the house, but we don’t want him to knoe’ve found it"

She took a deep breath and nodded "Okay, so what do we do?"

"We’re going to take it back to Istanbul, and we’re going to leave it so to his mind, and Malachi smiled "Someplace that will confuse the hell out of hi when they walked into the lobby of Ava’s old hotel The streets of the Sultanahmet were al man at the front desk and toward the courtyard near her old roonized Ava, then put his head down again, not realizing she no longer had a room there

"This way," she said softly "I think this is where they keep the carts"

Malachi spotted acarts, so he tugged Ava toward it, engaging the girl in a conversation about finding a razor because his luggage had been lost Malachi trapped the young woman in conversation while he passed the nazar to Ava She pal, and stuck it to the glass-and-metal amulet Then she pressed the blue circle into a corner, out of the line of sight, but hopefully secure enough to re under the nazar to hold it in place, then she tugged on his hand

"You knohat? I totally forgot, honey I have an extra razor insot about that I was surprised they let it on the plane"

Malachi switched to English "Is that so? I won’t bother her anyetic smile and thanked her Then he and Ava turned back toward the lobby and slipped out of the hotel

"Hopefully, the cart will h that he won’t be immediately suspicious Plus, you’ve stayed there before So while he’ll know you’re back in the city, he won’t realize you’re at our house"

"I can’t believe I stuck gum to the corner of her cart" Ava shuddered "The well-behaved schoolgirl in me is appalled by irl?"

"Of course not I was the crazy chick with a reputation to uphold"

"That’s what I was hoping for"