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It isn’t like her to try to talk her way out of something. She’s way too brave for that. So it surprises me she’s trying this angle.
“There will be plenty of time for sleeping later.”
She purses her lips and walks beside me with her head held high, but her lower lip trembles.
It would be a lie to say I don’t look forward to part of this. I’m not dead.
She’s gorgeous and brilliant, even if she is our enemy now.
I know what she looks like when she comes. I know that when she softens her heart and gentles her spirit, she’s irresistible.
“Sir?” someone calls from down the hall.
I turn with her still in my grip.
“Your mother’s here.”
My mother? “What? Is she alright?”
“Yes, sir. She said she’s here to talk to you and won’t keep you long.”
My mother never shows up unannounced. I glance over to see the look of triumph on Cosette’s face.
“Did you call her?”
“With what?” she asks innocently. “Smoke signals?”
Someonecalled her. For crying out loud.
I grumble under my breath and open the door to the guest room.
“You’re going to stay here. I need to see why she’s here and then I’ll be back.” I flick on the lights.
Cosette gasps.
Before she arrived, I had my men do some work. The final call was only to make sure they were putting the final touches into place.
The room, previously well-furnished for guests, has been transformed into little more than a cell.
A bed sits in the middle of the floor, with clean linens and pillows. There’s a small wooden desk and chair.
And nothing else.
The heavy door’s bolted from the hallway side, the locked windows fitted with reinforced steel bars.
Motion detectors and an alarm system with a spotlight are installed outside the room, a search light outside as well in clear sight.
The windows of the bathroom are locked and too small for anyone, even someone as slender as Cosette, to escape.
On the desk chair sits my black bag with tools.
“Wow,” Cosette says, almost amused. “I’m honored you think I’m that dangerous.”
I don’t respond but push her over to the bed.
“Stay there.”
“Glad you cleared that up. I was contemplating bending those metal bars with my hands, squeezing myself through a window the size of my nose, and maybe going for a little stroll.”
