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“Maybe we should just leave him a note,” I offered. “Sorry to leave you like this, but you were losing your shit and we had to knock you out.”
“Right?” Kavanaugh laughed. “We were the ones stranded for so long in the Caribbean and in the ocean. Two days and he was freaking out.”
“Yeah, but that was because of Eva and the cops.”
“Still…” Kavanaugh shook his head as we continued to stare down at him.
“Well,” Red clapped his hands together. “Should we get some lunch?”
“I could eat,” Kavanaugh nodded. “But we should pick everyone else up first.”
“Wait, what about the footage?”
“We’ll have to find this Simon character,” Red said. “We’ll put Rae on it.”
“We put her on everything.”
“Yeah, but she loves it,” Kavanaugh shrugged. “It’ll be fine.”
We walked out the door without looking back. “Maybe one of us should call Eva and fill her in on what’s happened.”
“Not it,” Red and Kavanaugh both said.
Sighing, I pulled out the phone I’d picked up this morning on the way to the hotel and dialed Eva’s number as we walked to my room.
“Where is my husband?”
I winced at her tone, trying to play this off like it was no big deal. “He’s sleeping. He had a long night.”
“Eli, don’t you dare try and pull one over on me. I’m not stupid.”
There was really no way out of this. It was best to just tell her the truth. “Look, he had a bit of a rough time, and we had to…make him sleep.”
“So, you drugged him.”
“No.”
“Who did it?” she snapped.
I looked at the other two. They couldn’t hear the conversation, so this was the perfect opportunity for me. “Kavanaugh,” I said without a second thought.
He frowned at me as Eva started shouting into the phone. I pulled it away from my ear and held it out to him. “She wants to talk to you.”
“I’m not taking that,” he said, stepping away from me like I was holding a venomous snake.
I shoved it further at him until he had no choice but to take it. “Eva—”
All I could hear was shouting, but I wasn’t the least bit concerned as I continued down the hall as Kavanaugh tried to talk himself out of the mess I just dropped him in.
I slid my key in the lock and opened my door, stopping when I saw IRIS, Sarah, and another man sitting around chatting.
“—loved the dead man’s switch,” IRIS grunted. “Nice trick.”
“Yeah, I didn’t want to accidentally blow myself up.”
I saw red, storming across the room the minute I understood who this asshole was. “What the fuck are you doing here?” I shouted, hauling him up by his collar and tossing him over the couch.
“Whoa, calm down.” IRIS stood, holding up his hands. “Simon brought us a gift.”
