Page 159 of Affair
“Is everything okay?” Gene asked. “Is Ethan okay?”
She nodded.
“Yeah, Honey, don’t worry. Everything is fine. I just want you to do me a favor.”
He lifted a brow.
“What?”
Raphael appeared so it would have to wait a second.
“You needed me?”
She went there.
“I want you to transport Gene back to the jet, and send him home. I want him to go back and be with Ethan. He shouldn’t be here any longer.”
Gene was surprised.
“You’ll be here alone.”
She was fine.
“I have three Marines up my ass, and a building full of mercenaries. Not you, too, now, Gene. Come on. I can‘do bad’all by myself.”
He laughed.
What was he thinking?
She could hold her own.
Elizabeth was deadly in her own right. She’d proved that for years.
“I can’t help it. I worry,” he said. “You’re part of my world, and you’re helping me raise our daughter. I like you in one piece.”
She would be fine.
Really.
This was her gift to him. Being here wasn’t making his life better.
It was making it hell.
“Go find Ethan. He’s rattled. I can tell.”
How did she know?
Oh, a little Ivan birdy told her.
Gene was grateful to her. Honestly, he didn’t want to be here.
Only, now, he was curious.
“Can I make a stop somewhere? Whenever Ethan and I are here, he gets me beignets and with the jet, they won’t be too cold when I get them back to him. I might try and find that love spell to make him my slave.”
She laughed and pulled a crisp hundred from her pocket.
“Get me four. I have some people that might need that spell,” she said, joking.
