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“You and I are going to disappear. We’re taking a long vacation.”
I stared at him.
I wasn’t getting a good feeling about this.
“I don’t want to go on vacation with you,” I informed him, I thought, unnecessarily.
“You’ll enjoy yourself.”
My eyes got wide. “Enjoy myself?”
“Shopping, eating in the finest restaurants. I’ll get you anything you want. We’ll go wherever you want. I’ll show you the world.”
Wow, Lee wasn’t wrong. This guy was nuts.
“Maybe you didn’t hear me. I said I don’t want to go on vacation with you.”
“We’ll spend time together. You get to know me, you’ll like me.”
Yep, totally nuts.
“You kill people,” I told him.
“I do what I have to do to get what I want.”
Holy crap.
“I don’t like people who kill people,” I shared. “They’re creepy.You’recreepy.”
Perhaps I should have been more careful with what I said, but it was like he had selective hearing and he chose not to hear that part.
“We’ll have to stay out of sight for a while. I have a friend who’s letting us use his lovely house on the beach in Costa Rica.”
Oh my God.
This guy was talking about lovely beach houses to a woman he kidnapped.
Totally a nut.
“You’re creepyandicky,” I broke in, hoping to get through to him. “I don’t want to go to a beach house in Costa Rica with a creepy, icky guy who looks like Grandpa Munster.”
He continued to ignore me and my insults. “You can sunbathe every day. I’ll buy you two dozen bikinis. I think six months, maybe more. Then, perhaps, we’ll go to Paris.”
“I’m not going on vacation with you. I’m staying here,” I announced.
At this, he smiled his oily smile.
Seriouseuw.
Time to get down to it.
“Listen,” I started, changing tactics and leaning forward to show my sincerity, “I’m really, um…” I was losing it. I couldn’t think of a suitable lie. I couldn’t remember the last time I couldn’t think of a suitable lie. I just went with the first word that popped in my head, no matter how hard it was to say it. “Honored that you like me and everything, but I’m in love with Lee. I’ve been in love with Lee since I was five. We’re living together. We’re going to get married, eventually, when he asks me. He has it all planned out.”
“I’ll help you forget Nightingale,” Wilcox told me.
Okay, seriously, this guy was nuts. Even if he wasn’t a weird, creepy, icky, scary bad guy who killed people, there wasn’t a woman alive who would forget Liam Nightingale. Especially if she’d seen him naked.
And what was taking Lee so long? He should have stormed in here and saved the day by now, surely. I was somewhat experienced with being kidnapped and now was about the time for a grenade or tear gas, or Lee to saunter in looking badass and pissed off and scaring everyone into doing what he wanted.
