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When he let her go, he took my hand, and we hurried from the house. His SUV was where he left it. The guards were gone. Now that we were leaving, I suppose Angel didn't feel the need to posture anymore.
Omar opened my door for me, and a little thrill rose in my belly. Were we actually…free? "Just Omar and Lyse, right?" he asked.
I nodded. "Just us."
We kissed again, a little rough and a lot desperate, and then I was climbing into the passenger side. Omar waited until I was seated to shut my door, but before he got around to the driver’s side, the front door of the house flew open.
"Where the hell are you going?"
CHAPTER30
Omar
Iknew we’d left the house way too easily. Lili stood in the doorway; she looked angrier than I had ever seen her. “I didn’t know that you were home,” I said.
Lili let out a bitter laugh and then launched herself at me. She socked me in the gut, igniting all of my other bruises so that my whole body throbbed. Vaguely I heard the car door open, and then Lili was being wrenched away from me. “Get off!” Lyse cried, putting herself between me and my sister. Lili looked ready to slap her, but Lyse held her ground. “You don’t get to hit him,” she said firmly, calm now that she wasn’t actively trying to fight off a raging Lili.
“You can’t go,” Lili said, ignoring Lyse. “Angel is recovering; he needs you now more than ever!”
“Angel gave us twenty-four hours to clear out.”
She shook her head, clearly shocked. “No, that can’t be right. Why would he want you to leave? He needs protection! He needs—” She looked at Lyse again. “Who are you? Why are you here?”
“Lyse Rojas,” she introduced herself. “I think you know my brother Matteo.”
There was something flat in her tone that made my stomach drop. I stared at Lili. “Mija?”
Lili blinked rapidly, shaking her head almost violently. “I don’t know a thing about Matteo.”
Lyse lifted her shoulder. “I guess that was my mistake.”
What in the hell was that?“Does someone want to tell me what’s going on?”
Lyse studied my sister for a long moment and then shook her head. “It’s nothing.” She nudged me toward the car. “We need to go.”
Lili watched us for a second before she seemed to remember that she was trying to stop me. “Wait! You can’t!”
“Angel doesn’t want us here,” I told her. “I’m not going to wait around and test if he’s going to actually shoot me or not.”
“If you go, you’re leaving him vulnerable. The Tíos were already trying to make moves. And what about Luis Rojas? If Angel looks weak, they’ll all move in on him.” Tears gathered along her lash line.
While she wasn’t wrong, Angel had a fleet of security guards who were loyal to him. They would move Heaven and Hell if he ordered them to do so. “He’s going to be fine,” I said. “He came out of a two-week coma, and he’s back at the helm like nothing happened.”
“But it’snotlike nothing’s happened,” Lili insisted. “You haven’t been here; you haven’t heard the way the guards talk.”
It’s not my business anymore, I thought, even as I started compiling a list of the guards that needed to be interrogated and weeded out. I sighed and put my hand on Lili’s shoulder. “Get rid of the ones that you’re worried about,” I said. “Look after Angel even if he tells you that he doesn’t need you to.”
Her eyes were round. “Are you asking me to be his enforcer?”
I shrugged. “I’m asking you to do what I can’t.” I gestured for Lyse to get back in the SUV, and she did, eyes never leaving Lili. “I’ll try and call you soon to let you know where we are.”
The light seemed to switch off in her eyes. “You won’t,” she insisted. “If you leave, I’ll never hear from you again.”
I hugged her. “You will,” I insisted. “I promise that you will.”
Then I let her go and climbed behind the wheel of the SUV. This time she didn’t interrupt as I turned the car on and made a beeline for the security gate. I made the mistake of looking back as we went through the gate: Lili was crumpled on her knees, obviously crying. The image would forever be burned into my brain.
Once we were on the road, Lyse looked at me. “Where are we going? Your brother said to get out of Miami, but what does that mean? Are we returning to the island?”
