Page 318 of Affair
Hopefully, they found the crypto key, and he didn’t. Only, that would have to wait.
When he opened the door, Gamble got in, and Elizabeth was alone in there.
“Ivan, lock the doors and get us to a hospital,” she said, as her bodyguard did just that.
Gamble was confused.
“Where’s Poe?” he asked, looking around like he’d been fooled.
“Poe is safe,” she said. “He came out of the building, and we put him in here with me.”
Uh, okay.
Only, that didn’t explain where he was.
Not.
Even.
Close.
“Where did he go? The hospital? Are you taking me to him?” he asked.
Oh, someone was about to be cranky.
“Give me your gun, Gamble,” she said, and he handed it over without a second thought.
She shoved it through the open window between her and Ivan, and he rolled up the glass.
“What’s going on?” he asked.
“You’re going to the hospital. Poe was fine. He’s also gone.”
Here’s where it was going to suck.
She expected a fight.
“What do you mean he’s gone?” Gamble asked. “I came to save him.”
Oh, well, the ironic part was that someone was trying to save him right back.
These two men...
“He is on his way back to England. He has things he has to handle there.”
Gamble sat there.
As his brain processed that, he suddenly got that feeling in the pit of his stomach. It was like when he had to say goodbye to his child.
“Wait. He’s not coming back, is he?”
She sighed.
“Gamble.”
He stared at her.
“He left me?” he asked, his heart taking that blow, and believing he’d not survive it.
