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Gabbana reached out and backhanded hih that Ty felt blood trickle down his chin froun and blatantly shoved it at Ty"s face Ty felt his heart rate pick up even htheaded as his upper body hung out over the open sea below Of course, if the guy shot him in the face, it wouldn"t really matter how far the drop was

Gabbana"s gun pressed against his cheek, and Ty didn"t try to regulate his reaction, his breathing becoht? Well, Ty figured he was doing that pretty well right about noo guns were hard to contest no matter how much ass you could kick

“You had better hope they are closer than your cabin,” Gabbana said quietly His gun ainst his teeth and sending a horrible shiver up and down his spine, like nails on a chalkboard The ive er He nodded against the gun, and the h for Ty to speak

“Inover the one piece of infor to them so far

Dolce released his shoulder, and Ty felt hih, and his feet hit the deck with a thu into his pocket for the iPod When Dolce pulled it out, the two o weak

Again

“Do not forget who you are working for,” Gabbana said as he slid his weapon back into the folds of his coat Ty resisted the urge to ask the man to remind him

“We shall be in touch,” Dolce said almost cordially, and then the twoand breathing hard He put his hand to his lip, wiped blood away froers

“I hate this fking case,” he murmured to himself

A GOOD two hours after Ty"s interruption, Zane tucked a credit slip for a modest amount of money into the inside pocket of his suit jacket

He"d pretty much broken even at the table with Ar enough to the positive that he"d not been able to shoehorn in an excuse to leave until now

He"d used the ti for tells and nervous twitches, tracking how much they won and how much they lost Bianchi was eternally jovial and content, a personality quirk that almost took its toll on Zane"s patience Ar so a hand

He was not delightful company

Zane knew Ar him carefully; he"d been particularly attentive when Ty had shown up Zane had been on a roll at the point, having won three hands in a row, and a whining spouse seeking attention sih roller

Despite his show otherwise, the probleet that agitated without reason But Zane had not been concerned until after he"d summarily dismissed Ty At the ti Bianchi or Armen to talk about themselves or their mutual business than he had been on his partner"s state of mind

So noalked out of the casino, forcing hirew more and more worried

The war everything around hi as he could, but there had been a second, and a third, and then it had been too late He could still taste it now, the burn of the ultra-preue and at the back of his throat