I hadn’t expected to see him again. And in the last four years, I’d managed to make sure he never saw me. Yet there he stood, near one of the entrances, wearing a guard’s uniform. His lips curved up and he even went so far as to wink at me.
Fuck.My brain short circuited. I could feel myself malfunctioning like a robot dropped into the ocean.What am I supposed to do?When next I glanced back at him, his eyes were no longer on me, but I knew in my gut that he couldn’t be here for anything good. Forcing my feet to move, I didn’t slow or rush, but I continued past the Prince’s wife with no more than a smile and polite ‘happy anniversary.’
There was no way he’d be here working a job as simple as a security guard; go big or go home was his philosophy. If he was here, then there were only two possible reasons: to steal the diamond necklace or set a trap. Whether that trap was for the Wolf, Hadrian,andme orjustme, there was no way to know. I wasn’t going to stick around to find out.
Perhaps if I wasn’t increasingly aware that Hadrian and Wolf were watching me, I might have approached him, but this was too suspicious, and with my freedom on the line, there was no way in hell I was going to risk taking the prize with him only a couple hundred feet away. He was still angry with me for leaving. I’d been steadily avoiding him ever since that last job.
Never again,my mind repeated the mantra I’d followed since I’d gotten away from Jaxson Norrison.Never again. Never again. Never again.
Taking deep steadying breaths, I forced the adrenaline that had built in my veins to calm but only two thoughts filled my mind as I started toward Wolf.
Abort the mission and get the fuck out. Now.