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“Thank you, Mike. Bring him in. That will be all for the night. See you tomorrow,” she heard Ian say before the door actually clicked closed. She vaguely heard Mike wishing them a good night.
Just as she had stood dumbfounded in the middle of their living room, she stood dumbfounded in the bedroom assigned to her, facing the door.
She could vaguely make out voices and then suddenly the sound of a man screaming reached her ears. She nearly jumped out of her skin. Her chest heaved as the agony-filled voice of the man pierced her eardrums.
Slowly and unsure she inched her way to the door and pressed her ear against it.
“Justin, please, please. I’m begging you. I have a family.”
Justin? Gray Eyes had a name after all, and it was Justin.
Justin. Ian. Drake.
“You should have thought of your family before you decided to change your alliance.”
“You knew what would happen when you joined our enemies, Ace. What did you think was going to happen? That we would give you our blessings? You stole business from us and money and now you’ll pay the price.”
“Please, please. Please. I’m begging for my life. I made a mistake. I’ll make things right. I’ll...”
The genuine fear in the man’s voice grew more and more disturbing for Lorelei to hear.
“Okay. Wait. I know when their next shipment is coming in. I’ll give you everything. Please, just let me live.”
“Go on.”
Her eyes misted with tears as real dread filled her veins. She barely listened to the man spill details about some arms shipment as he gave them the specifics.
“I told you everything I know. I’ll work in the kitchen here at your club for the rest of my life, but please, please, don’t kill me.”
“It’s too late for you, man. You know we can’t let you get away with stealing from us and live.”
Lorelei stumbled backward as a shattering scream pierced her eye drums.
Panting and quivering, she bumped into the bed as she staggered away from the door and then plopped herself down.
Did they kill him? Right there in their living room?
Oh god, what had she become involved in?
Beneath it all, she was still just a clueless little virgin with no real-life experience or any street-smart credentials to call upon, kidnapped by men who lived in a different world. A world where they ruled, and law and order didn’t apply to them. She was so out of their league, she was a corpse already.
What were they going to do to her once they were done with her? She had no intention of giving them even the tiniest bit of information on Morgan, no matter what they did to torture her. But once they had no use for her, what then? For the first time in her life she wasn’t exaggerating her thoughts.
This was real.
Morgan had gotten involved with the mafia. Would they dump her body in a river somewhere when she was of no use to them? Human traffic her to the other end of the world? Those possibilities were so real she whimpered in fear for herself and Morgan.
She was scared witless and seriously doubted she was going to make it out alive, either way. She clenched her fists so tightly together to stop herself from crying hysterically.
It started with one stupid toy. And of course Morgan’s own stupidity. Where was he? Was he safe? Why was he doing this? Did he know who he was messing with when he took their money? But what if he was innocent? That gave her some hope. If Morgan was innocent and they’d had the wrong people, they might just be able to escape with their lives intact.
She had to believe that Morgan wouldn’t do so something as stupid as take money from the men who tended to kill those who crossed them. Scary men. Mafia men.
Please be innocent, Morgan. Please be innocent and I’ll find a way to get us out.
She curled up on the bed and sobbed herself to sleep. But her dreams were chaotic and filled with violence. She became aware of herself tossing and turning, trying to escape the images in her mind.
She cried in frustration as her dreams took a deeper hold. Blood stained their pure white rugs and trailed over their marble tiles to their front door. She saw herself standing in the middle, this time in a sheer nightgown that revealed her nakedness beneath.
