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“Everything we both know you did.”
I attempted to hang on to the last shred of my self-respect. “Why? You’re just going to kill me anyway.”
That was when Rachel pressed her gun into my crotch.
“You can die,” she said, “or you can die a few minutes after I shoot your cock off.”
“ALRIGHT! W-what do you want to know?!”
“You had me kill Solner,” Lars said, “but you told Rachel I was working for the Chinese.”
“Yes,” I admitted.
“Out of curiosity, was he really working for the Chinese – or did you actually have me kill somebody who was helping MI6?”
“He was a Chinese asset! He wasn’t working for us, I swear!”
“So you lied to me,” Rachel snarled.
I turned my face to her and tried appealing to whatever tender feelings she might still harbor for me. “Darling, please – ”
I guess she didn’t harbor any because she punched me in the nose.
“GOD DAMMIT!” I howled.
“Then you had me arrested in Lake Como,” Lars said.
“Yes,” I said, wincing against the pain. I could feel blood trickling down the lower half of my face.
“What I don’t get is when I tried to call her, it said her number had changed – ”
“But I didn’t change my number,” Rachel finished.
My situation was hopeless.
These two psychopaths were going to kill me – that much was clear –
Why bother trying to appease them?
So I laughed. Laughed with all the contempt and hatred I felt for both of them.
“All I did was reroute any calls from Italy to her mobile number. I included the Netherlands – your friend in Amsterdam – just to be safe. You think that was difficult? It was fucking child’s play.”
Rachel frowned. “You couldn’t do it – you have no idea how to do something like that!”
“I had one of the techs do it for me!” I said, then laughed. “I told him I was trying to intercept a terrorist’s phone calls!”
“All so you could have her,” Lars said contemptuously, like I was the world’s biggest fool.
“What was the alternative?” I snarled. “Watch some Neanderthal fuck her?”
Maybe it was the pain –
Maybe it was the humiliation –
Maybe it was that I still loved her, deep down, despite her treachery –
But I snapped.
