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“Trusting people gets you killed, don’t you think?”
“What?”
“It wasn’t Mrs. Aldova working for Diego. It was someone much closer to home.”
“What am I missing here?”
“I’ll explain later. Tell me something though. Would you have let me drink that?”
“No.”
“Seemed a close run thing.”
“It really wasn’t.”
“Thought you wanted me dead.”
“I did… but I don’t anymore.”
“Why not?”
The words fall out of my mouth before I can stop them. “Because I’ve fallen in love with you.”
His smile doesn’t return. He sets the glass down next to the bottle, looking at it closely. “I don’t believe in love,” he says quietly, spinning around to face me. “Does that surprise you?”
“No,” I say, feeling a knife stabbing me in the heart. “I guess not.”
“What was supposed to happen after I drank this?”
“I call Diego and he comes to see your body to make sure you’re dead.”
“Then what?”
“He pays me a million dollars and moves in here.”
“You should have let me drink it.”
“You knew it was poisoned. You were testing me.”
“And you passed.”
“Then listen to this for some extra credit.” I explain my plan to him. He’s silent throughout, nodding slowly until I’m done. “What do you think?” I ask when I’m finished.
“I think that’s so crazy it just might work.”
8
Alexsei
The gun is underneath me, ready. I lay perfectly still, listening to the conversation outside the coffin. There’s a strange sense of peace being in here. It’s lined with white velvet that’s soft to the touch.
I expected to be afraid but I’m calm. This situation is like me and Mila. I expected to hate her, to hurt her, to break her. Instead, I would die to save her.
The sounds are muted but audible, courtesy of the earpiece connected to the microphone hidden in the ceiling above the ballroom. I’m in the anteroom off to the west, biding my time.
Mila is doing her best to set this up right. Diego is out there with at least a half dozen men, maybe more. I haven’t enough bullets for all of them. What I do have is a plan.
Well, not my plan. It’s Mila’s. She’s thought the whole thing through, way better than anything I could come up with. She’s a genius. Got this whole thing figured out.
