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“Your eyes are swollen shut,” she said. “Here. Let me help you.”
A few seconds later, something cold and gelatinous soothed my eyes. Heaven.
“It’ll take about twenty-four hours for the swelling to go completely down. Right now they’re crusted shut. I’m cleaning them out for you. This will only take a minute.”
She could take forever, as far as I was concerned. The coolness on my eyes was nirvana.
“Okay. Try opening.”
I forced my eyes open into slits. Her face was fuzzy in front of me. “Still blurry,” I said.
“That’s from the tears and mucus. It’s your body healing the inflammation from the capsaicin. It will pass.”
I nodded. What else could I do? “Joe?” I said.
“Mr. Steel refused the sedative,” she said. “His wife is with him.”
Of course. They would have called Melanie. I had no one for them to call. Marjorie was missing, and my mother and son were in Florida. I had no emergency contact.
No one had come for me.
I was isolated. Alone.
Just like always.
Joe and I were crack shots. We also knew how to fight like pros. And fucking pepper spray had taken us down.
Whoever Cade Booker was, I would personally destroy him.
After I destroyed whoever had stolen Marjorie from me.
I had a sneaking suspicion they might be one and the same.
Chapter Ten
Marjorie
“Seriously?” Alex scoffed. “Now I have to clean up vomit?”
“Stop your whining,” Dave said. “I’ll do it. Isn’t that what I’m for, anyway? The grunt work?”
I touched Colin’s arm. “You going to be okay?”
“Of course I’m not okay, Marj. I’ve been kidnapped again. I’m not going to be okay.”
I nodded. What could I say? He was right.
“He needs something to soothe his stomach,” I said to Dominic. “Do you have any Pepto Bismol? Peppermint tea?”
“Do we look like an apothecary?” Alex said snidely.
“Sorry,” Dominic said. “We don’t have any of that stuff.”
“Yeah? What if one of us gets sick? Oh! Looks like that already happened.”
“He probably had a reaction to the drug.”
“No, he had a reaction to the fact that he was drugged and kidnapped for the second time in his young life.”
