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“Well, at least you picked a spot with decent amenities,” Saint says, admiring the food—and the waitress who brings plates of bread and tartare to the table. “Can’t be too bad, being holed up here.”
I give a shrug. “I’ll sleep easier once I have my new papers and put some distance between me and Sebastian Wolfe. Literally,” I say. I’ve been thinking of South America for a while: Colombia maybe, and Brazil. Places oceans away where nobody would think to find me.
Places where I could get lost.
I reach for the bread, and I’ve just taken a bite when Saint says casually, “You know, Avery came to see me.”
My head snaps up. “Avery?” I repeat, my pulse suddenly pounding. “She’s in London? What? Why?”
“Why do you think?” Saint gives me a look. “She’s searching for you.”
Shit.
I can’t deny the way my heart leaps at the thought that she still wants to be with me, but that brief relief is drowned out by the danger that she’s putting herself in.
“What happened?” I demand. “Tell me everything.”
Saint shrugs and sips his wine. “Nothing much to tell. She came to find me at the club, and demanded I reveal your location.”
“Did you tell her anything?” I ask, gripped.
“Of course not!” Saint protests. “I’m the height of discretion. Like James Bond, but better looking.”
I exhale. “Good,” I say grimly. “She can’t ever know where I am.”
Saint pauses, giving me a look of scrutiny. “Are you really so sure about that? You have the money and the resources to go anywhere and do anything. If you’re going to disappear, then why not take her with you?”
I shake my head. “I can’t. She wouldn’t be safe.”
“Is that true?” he counters. “Or just a convenient excuse, not to follow through on anything, and make the relationship work.”
I scowl. “You think I haven’t gone over this a hundred times?” I tell him angrily. “Looking for some way we could be together? But there’s no other way. This is the plan now. There’s nothing left to say.”
“That’s too bad.”
A voice behind us makes me startle. I turn, my jaw dropping in disbelief as Avery herself saunters over, slides into the booth, and fixes me with a cool, demanding stare.
“I guess plans change.”
15
AVERY
“Avery…”
Sebastian stares at me across the table, dumbstruck.He wasn’t expecting me, that much is clear.
Saint looks back and forth between us, and tactfully clears his throat. “You know, this seems like a good time for me to step out and make a phone call.”
He slips out of the booth and disappears, leaving us alone.
I reach over and take a piece of the fresh-baked bread, savoring the taste of it. “Well, I have to give you points for hiding out somewhere with great food,” I remark, casual. “Even if you did break my heart and abandon me to do it.”
Sebastian’s jaw tenses. He looks good, too good, even with dark shadows under his eyes and a look of haunted fury in his eyes, and everything in me aches to hold him again.
“You shouldn’t be here,” he grinds out between gritted teeth. “You’re supposed to be back in America. Anywhere but here.”
“I need to talk to you. It’s important,” I add, but Sebastian is already on his feet.
