Page 86 of Sin With Me

Chapter22

Kate

Lola!I screamed in my mind as I shot out the side door or the church, but I didn’t get far. Someone grabbed me and my instinct took over. I elbowed my attacker in the gut, and she responded with a grunt.

“Ouch.”

“Lola? What are you doinghere?”

“Shh! Don’t you know who’s intown?”

“Yes, but how do youknow?”

She rolled her eyes. “I’m a hairdresser. People talk. I listen.”

“Oh, Fath…” I paused. “Cam told me to findyou.”

She rolled her eyes again, and I wondered where her annoyance was comingfrom.

“Yeah, he was supposed to do so quicker, not when they were alreadyhere.”

“What?”

She waved her hand. “Never mind. I would’ve been here quicker, but I was taking a shower.”

That’s when I noticed that her hair was still wet. “Wait, I thought you were working and people were talking?”

“They were. Ok, listen, Hope. I don’t have a lot of time to explain. See that sewer over there?” I followed her pointing finger to behind the church. “It leads to a tunnel Ben and Mateo Cortez once used. One of the passages will take us to behind the Bistro. We’ll climb over the hill so they won’t see us, and I have an escape car waiting there. We’ll need to go through the mountains and over risky terrain, but that’s what I trainedfor.”

“Trained for?” What the hell was she talking about? How did she know about Cortez? What was happeninghere?

“That’s the easyway.”

“I never told you my name is Hope,” Isaid.

She shook her head. “You’re not going to stop asking questions, now, are you? I guess hard way it is, then.”

She jabbed a needle into my arm, and the world fadedaway.

* * *

My arm crampedand I shifted in my bed, sinking into the pillow-top mattress. I stretched my legs along the soft sheet and pulled the cover up to my chin, grasping it tightly in my fists. It felt softer than I remembered, and it smelled a little different as well: more masculine. I twisted again, this time with a little uneasiness.

Wait – I don’t have a pillow-top mattress.

I shot up and sat back against a cold headboard. My eyes were wide open, but they may as well have been closed because I couldn’t see anything.

Where amI?

“Hello?”

A door opened and I jumped up. The bright light that came through blinded me, but I had enough time to see a dark silhouette walk inside.

“Get away from me!” I screamed, pushing at the sheets with my feet in a weak attempt tomove.

“Hope, relax. It’sme.”

“Lola?”

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