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“No way.”

Kina turned on him. “Literally every woman learns in kindergarten that you shouldn’t get into cars with strange men.”

“Wait, isn’t it your job to get into cars with strange men?”

“I work out of a hotel room, you asshole.”

“Sorry, I just thought?—”

“Just because I’m a sex worker doesn’t mean you have to get all judgmental.”

“I didn’t mean that the way it sounded.”

“Oh, really? Men are happy to take advantage of my services when it suits them, and then they?—”

“Could I just squeeze past?” I asked. “I need to get to my room.”

“No!” they yelled in unison, and then Kina added, “I’ll drive you to the hospital.”

“I’m coming too,” Rusty said.

“No, you’re not.”

“So you’re planning to pay for her treatment?”

“Uh…”

“Then I’m coming.”

I raised a hand. “Do I get any say in this?”

On that one thing, they agreed. “No.”

CHAPTER 4

RUSTY

“Here’s my number. If you need a ride home later, get somebody to call me, okay?”

Kina shoved the piece of paper into Erin’s hand, climbed back into her tiny Honda, and took off, leaving Rusty and Erin standing outside the emergency room.

Rusty Bolt had kept his damn mouth shut on the way to the hospital. Understanding the female mind had never been his strong suit—his sisters had told him that a thousand times—and he hadn’t meant to insult Kina. But shehadoffered him a blow job for fifty bucks, so it wasn’t as if she kept her profession a secret.

He wasn’t looking for a good time, and he didn’t even want to be in Vegas, but someone needed to stop Silas Armstrong from making a big mistake, and that someone turned out to be him.

When Erin just stood there, he moved a hand toward the small of her back, caught himself, and then gestured at the door instead.

“After you.”

But Erin didn’t move. Instead, she bit her lip.

“What do you even do in a hospital? Do you just walk in and ask for a doctor?”

“You’ve never been in a hospital before?”

“Only once to visit a friend, but that was in Hawaii. Do things work the same here?”

“Pretty much. You walk in, they interrogate you about how you’re going to pay, and then they get you a doctor. Do you have insurance?”

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