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“Remember anything good?”
I can hear him smiling through the phone.
It brings to mind an image of him on his knees, smiling up at me.
My heart thumps hard in my chest.
“I’m hanging up, Lock.”
“Alright, alright, wait. See, the thing is, Sammi, I can’t tell you.”
“What do you mean you can’t?”
I feel the heat in my stomach putter out, smothered by the anger building there.
He pauses too long, like an award show host who’s about to announce the winner.
“What’s with the suspense, Lock?” I ask, frustrated beyond belief.
“Look, darl, it’s proper dangerous. That’s all I’m gonna say. Even if I wanted to tell you where, I wouldn’t.”
“What’s dangerous? Fuck, Lock, could you be any more dramatic?”
“You can’t go back there,” he spits out, actually sounding serious for a change. “We,ah…we collectively fucked about there pretty thoroughly last night.If you’ve backtracked all the way to the gambling point of the night, you’ve likely realized by now—any place where our little party ended up last night, we’re not exactly welcome again. Ring any bells?”
I eye the Head Monk, currently standing at the top of a long set of stairs, gazing down at me like he’s ready to toss my ass off the mountain at any given moment.
“One or two,” I admit.
“Then you should understand that the gambling den is off limits—for you, Liam, andespeciallyfor Percy. It’s not safe.”
“Lock, I’m going to figure this out one way or another. If something isn’t safe, maybe you should just come the fuck out with it.”
Hopefully that’ll drive some sense into him.
“All I’m gonna tell you, love, is you do not fuck with the Bangkok mafia. Understand?”
Bangkok mafia.
What fresh hell is this?
“No. I donotunderstand.” I say, honestly.
“You understand enough. Just drop it, okay?”
“Fine. I will.”
I won’t.
“Good,” he says, back to dripping with charm. “Now, will you tell me what you remember?”
I ignore his question completely.
“Did we get married last night?” I ask instead.
His laugh makes my blood boil.
“So youdoremember something!”
