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A beaming Tess in a Star Wars T-shirt appeared on the screen.
“That’s why I come bearing gifts,” I said.
“Such a sweet, sweet gift,” Mia added, her blood-red nails tapping on her leather corset.
“We’re going to get those papers back from Charles that he made you sign. Lawyers! They truly are the scum of the earth. And they calluscriminals.”
Mia gave me a look. “Isn’t Romanov a real-life kingpin?”
“At least he’s not pretending to be an upstanding citizen.”
“Look, I get you want to make up for what Baran made you do,” Lily said. “But going after Charles is not the way to make up with me. It’s bad enough you almost got tortured because of me. There’s no way I’m letting that happen again.”
“Hear me out,” I said. “This time, we’ll be prepared.”
Lily looked dubious but didn’t interrupt me as I told them of my plan.
***
The sun was going down by the time we stood in front of Charles’ hotel room.
It was easy to put a plan together to get Mia into Charles’ hotel room. The asshole had a penchant for hiring a new call girl every night. According to Tess, Charles was in deep debt after spending a fortune on gambling and escorts. Which explained why he wanted to steal Lily’s place. Tess intercepted his call girl ‘order’ for that night, then did something behind the scenes that got us inside through the proper channels.
We went over the plan one last time.
I gave Mia a once-over. “You look hot. That dick won’t be able to keep his eyes off you.”
She tucked a strand of shiny hair behind her ear. “God forbid a man should be interested in something else, like my brain.”
“Are we feeling sorry for being an exotic beauty?”
“Such a First World problem, right?” Mia winked at me, but for a moment I saw pain flash in her eyes.
She took a deep breath, then knocked on Charles’ door. He let her in and barely looked at me. I couldn’t blame him. Mia’s generous rack was quite eye-catching. While she kept him distracted—the girl could flirt like a pro—I spiked his drink. The pretentious dick downed a glass of an expensive scotch in one go while staring at Mia’s ass. She giggled like a little schoolgirl, gave him an air kiss, and went into the bathroom to ‘freshen up.’ I took my time cleaning stuff. When I saw his eyes droop I left, feeling secure now that he’d be going down any second.
I took the service elevator down to the underground parking lot. My heart beat uncontrollably as I made a beeline for our car at the far end of the lot. I noticed a figure hurrying toward the car. It was Yuri. Crap. He must have checked up on my whereabouts much sooner than I had expected. Tess was supposed to have kept him distracted.
Yuri pounded on the passenger side window, demanding to speak to me.
“I’m here,” I said over his shoulder.
He pivoted and blinked. “Why the fuck are you dressed like that?”
“What’s wrong with my outfit? Maybe I started working as a maid.”
He ran his hand over his face. “Kristoff is going to kill me.”
Lily unlocked the doors and I dropped into the passenger seat, ignoring Yuri who sat in the back, staring daggers at me.
“Is anyone going to fill me in on what the fuck is going on?”
“Not now, Yuri.” I kept my eyes on the elevator doors on the other side of the garage. Where was Mia? She was supposed to be right behind me. “There!”
Lily started the car. “Finally.”
I turned in my seat and gave Yuri big eyes. “Yuriska,you’re not going to snitch on us, are you?”
He scoffed. “You can save the puppy dog eyes. I’m going to snitch on all of you so hard it’ll make your heads spin.”
