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“So we’ll set up Gundersen as a hotel e his pal it stand on end “Berg and Pedersen should set up outside the hotel in twelve-hour shifts”

He nodded several ti a few nonsensical acronyms that must have made sense to the person on the other end of the line before hanging up and slipping the phone back into his pocket

“So what happens now?” she asked, not sure she wanted to hear the answer

“We call off the wedding and get you the hell off this island”

She could disappear and start over Jasper didn’t need her looking over his shoulder anya peranization was too valuable to let anything happen to hier before she walked away fro her here were her kids? If they left, would she too?

It seemed like Ruby’s world was full of breathless possibilities instead of well-loved burdens, but when she tried to i that popped to arden of lavender, co in the sun, and a dark-haired, blue-eyed ht for her

And that was never going to happen

Her throat ached, but she forced the words out anyith a bravado she didn’t feel “So I guess this is good-bye”

The ht, and his eyes darkened dangerously “I don’t want it to be”

“That e facts” She lifted her chin and dredged up any bit of self-control she had not to bound up froht into his aruy I’hter”

“That’s where you’re wrong” He stalked over to her, every step an act of aggression no doubt e home “The Sparrow and your bother, they know the score I did terrible things before I joined the Silver Knights Luc Svendsen, and all his misdeeds, isn’t just a cover It’s my real name It’s who I really am Every blackmail scheme, every extortion, all of the lives ruined, and dishonest schemes enabled, I did that If Dominick Rasmussen hadn’t seen a use for me and recruited me into the resistance when Henriksen’s father was still riding high on the success of his coup to overthrow the Elskovian ivensecrets to the highest bidder I’uy”

He loo If he expected her to back down, he was seriously mistaken

“Bullshit” She stood up fro him to take a step back to make room for her “Who you used to be isn’t important, it’s who you are now that counts”

Crossing his arh chick with all the answers”

“Co from you…” She shot him a sassy smirk “I take that as a compliment”