Page 30 of The Way You Bite
“She was bleeding? Did she fight you or something?” asked Eric.
“Someone knifed her at the wedding.”
“Because of us at her work?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s put her on a plane right now and let her wake up in Europe,” Eric suggested with a hopeful tone.
“Your life would be easier, but this has to be her choice.”
“I get this would be a political nightmare if we took her, but what about her fake suicide? She doesn’t want to be here. Even if your special skills can’t work to convince her, she seems to like you. If you won’t kidnap her, then maybe you could sway her to speed her evacuation the fuck up. The longer we’re here the more likely we’re going to end up fighting Scarpas or DiFalcos. I want to think odds are in our favor, but a lot of us will get hurt.”
Lexan massaged his forehead. He agreed with Eric and wished they could all board a plane right now. She might not want to be in the States, but that didn’t mean she wanted to be with them. He could remove her and smooth it over, but it wasn’t that simple. He’d promised to let her decide. His word was his word. Damn it.
He also sure as hell wasn’t walking away from her after all this. Nature had the last laugh in this catastrophe.
