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“She really does love doing it,” Owen told him. “You can feel it.”
“I believe you. It’s just—”
“I get it,” Owen said gently.
I was glad. I wanted everyone to get along and help each other even if it meant helping us over our shit.
And apparently, my reward for that was two of the sexiest men I’d ever known touching, teasing, licking, and sucking almost every inch of my body before I couldn’t take anymore and passed out.
11
“Where’s my guard?” the woman I was there to see worried in Portuguese as I came into her room.
Well, according to Google translating for me.
“She’s fine. Napping,” I told her. “I really hope you know English well enough to understand me because we didn’t have time to find someone who—”
“I understand it,” she said, her accent thick. “I not speak it well.”
Fair enough.
“Your husband is a monster.” It was hard not to judge her when she gave me a look likeno shit, but I was damn sure this woman was trapped. “The good news is his mistress has someone on the inside of his guards and they’ve been poisoning him.”
She snorted. “Good. Finally, she’s…”
“You want to say ‘useful’ probably but there’s bad news.” I nodded when she sighed like there always was. “I need to know first how you married such a monster. We don’t have that intel.”
She gave me a shit look that I would accuse her but then sighed.
And she didn’t know enough English to tell me well.
It took a bit with Google, but at least we managed. Her story was one heard more than it should be. She was too pretty for her own good and caught the wrong attention. Her family was poor and had no way to protect her when a powerful man demanded she be his. And that was that. She had been sixteen when her now husband saw her at a damn market and just declared she was his.
And she’d been a prisoner ever since.
“You know how he makes his money, right?” I checked, nodding when she swallowed loudly. I read my phone as she rattled off in Portuguese.
She had children now and they were dead without her. He didn’t believe in divorce, so as horrible as it was, she had stopped trying to run after her first baby was born. She hated him too, but she had to protect them.
I nodded. “The bad news is the mistress got him to change his will. You and the kids get nothing. She gets half, the guy helping her gets the other half and takes over. And from what we can tell, you and your kids get dead.”
She went pale and I hated to be so blunt, but crashing her appointment at the spa while she got a massage didn’t give me a lot of time.
“I can’t give you all the details, but the Spanish government is tired of your husband and his deep pockets to buy his way out of all his trouble.”
“You are not them. What do you care?”
“I care because your husband sellschildren,” I bit out. “My country can only do so much without taking out the sources and the ones who keep up these human trafficking rings.” I backed off when she nodded. “I’m here to offer you a deal. We will take care of the mistress and inside guy. We’ll get the will changed. You will get everything.”
“And you get?” she asked, understanding that there was a price for it and this was the time for negotiations.
“We get the compound. That’s what we want, and it will be protected by the government here for victims. The problem is the victims get put back into the corrupt system too often. We’re going to be dirty this once and try to hop around that. I want everything to take down the whole network. All the pieces your husband has.”
“And my children get?”
I was impressed she was worried for them first and phrased it that way. Plus, it was true. This woman was full of the desire for nothing more than her children to live and be safe. She didn’t care if I threw her in jail forever for being party to the crimes she couldn’t stop and was actually a victim of as well… As long as her children were safe and not used as pawns.
“You will start a new life in Germany with them,” I told her. “Some of the assets will be seized by Spain for all his crimes and to pay victims. Mostly they want to see who will try and take over.However, you will still get a sizeable chunk of the accounts. Plus, if you agree to give me personally a few of the houses, I will give you eighty percent of the sales.”
