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We rolled, she under me, me buried inside her. A sense of urgency grew in my belly, and my need for her became more intense. I went faster, and she took it. I pushed deeper into her, and her lips and pussy were hungry for me.

There was no anger, no fury, no spite. There was no horrible woman laying into me with a thronged whip, there were no forced positions, there was no fucking pain, there was only the sweetness of her.

The tears fell on her face from my cheeks.

I wept and then lost my rhythm. She whispered magical words in my ear, and it didn’t matter. We laid together, and the weight of it came home, I was free. I had truly escaped; I had been rescued.

I was free.

My own orgasm seemed like an afterthought, a bodily function taking care of itself.

It was like an evil spirit leaving my body, purifying me with its passage.

When she kissed me, it tasted like a promise, a promise that the bad things were over.

Chapter Eleven

Lachlan…

“The first order of business is that we need to get out of Monaco and back home. The house on Phoenician Boulevard should still be secure, and there’s nothing tying it to our identities, as known to the Escadrille,” I said. Roan had his laptop set up, and the one that was technically mine, but I pretty much never used, right next to it.

“Aye, but the Escadrille people know we’re here,” he said calmly.

“Which means they’ll be watching the main avenues that any sane person would use to leave the city.” I pointed at him.

“Which means that if we get on an airplane, going anywhere in the world, they will have someone on us in a matter of hours, if not meeting us when we land,” Roan remarked.

“Who knows, we might have made them angry enough to look into bringing down an airliner while we’re on it. No way for us to fight a missile shot at us,” I said, feeling a little discouraged.

Sadie’s eyes were large, but she had said she wanted to be included, so she was being included.

“Taking a ship is right out. Anything large enough to go somewhere of interest to us would be able to have some of their people on it. As soon as we’re out of Monaco’s waters, we’re right back at the airport problem. Hell, it would be easy for them to put people on almost any boat in the harbor, just waiting for us to try and slip their net.” He grimaced.

“Do we know that?” Sadie asked. “That they know we’re here?”

“Yes, they know,” I said. “Just because there is an enforced peace here doesn’t mean there is an order of silence.”

“They probably know what room we’re in,” Roan admitted.

She got a little paler.

“So, what would an insane person do?” I asked. “Outside the box answers only.”

“Smuggle ourselves over a border illegally,” Roan said.

“Swim?” Sadie guessed.

“Take up residency.” I threw one out, but I knew that wouldn’t work. Monaco was expensive and eventually we’d go mad cooped up in a single city, no matter how nice it was. And did I mention it was expensive? Like,reallyexpensive.

“Attack.” Roan didn’t look up from his screens. “We attack.”

“Like an ambush?” I raised an eyebrow.

“Would they expect that?” Sadie asked.

“Possibly, but not as likely.” He looked hopeful. “Hitting Mont Saint Chauvignon really took them be surprise, and literally three and a half people—”

“Four,” Sadie interrupted him.

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