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But it wasn’t enough

Vaughn and I were sitting on the couch and our legs were touching, but I found that wasn’t enough either Since he’d see me earlier, I had to hope what I was about to do wouldn’t upset or e as I let the fingers of hn’s My goal was to just have the little bit of contact with him, but he surprised me when he cal our fingers

And he kept right on talking withouta beat

Like holdingin the world

I pulled in a breath, then another and felt hn’s voice as he spoke

“We need to let Stylianos seek us out,” he said to Luca “If you just start parading around the fact that you have Aleks, he’ll get suspicious…at you for killing his men”

“I had my team plant evidence that points to a few other potential parties,” King said “Hopefully that will throw Stylianos off… he’ll just think you were one of a few guys going after Aleks”

Although I knew none of them considered me property, I knew it had to look that way if any of this was going to work But it still made me sick to think about how that’s what I’d once been… and that there were people out there anted to ain

“I think we need to throw Stylianos off even hn said “We need to make it look like an independent party took Aleks for the cash payout and Luca just happened to find out about it before anyone else… it’ll legitiuys who can play the role?”

“Yeah,” King said, his face pulled into a mask of seriousness

“We’ll need to get Lex and his teahn said

“No,” King interrupted “Lex isn’t available I’ll take care of the posts”

All three , he’d want to be involved in the search for Gio—”