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The door smacks against the wall, and Truman bounds out, nodding in my direction. “Let’s roll.”

“Where are we going?”

Chapter Forty-Nine

Kinsley

The blindfold is jerked off my face, and the room’s bright light causes pain to shoot through my eyes. But as bad as I’d like to close them to avoid the stinging sensation, I keep my eyes pinned on Carla.

Her hair is sticking up in all directions. “So the perfect princess is awake.” She smacks my face, and I lurch forward in my seat. The straps around my chest and arms tighten, biting into my skin. “Were you listening to our conversation?” She twirls the black blindfold on her fingertip.

“Leo is going to figure out where I am.”

“Please.” She rolls her eyes. “That guy couldn’t find his way out of a wet paper bag. All guys are dragged around by their dicks. He couldn’t see what was happening around him because he was too stuck up your ass.”

“Carla, don’t talk to her.” Marge grabs Carla’s arm and hauls her backward.

Her eyes flash. “You don’t tell me what to do.” She yanks her arm away, causing Marge to toddle sideways. “Mom was right. You are the weak one.” She laughs and returns her attention to me. “It’s already too late. She’s heard too much, and once again, I’m going to have to take out your trash.”

“Leo will find me. He’s brilliant with computers. He’ll see Marge shoving me into the car and come here.” I glance around the room.

It’s like an explosion of pink went off inside of it. There are pink curtains. A pink recliner. A pink cat. The cat is pink. What in the hell? When the cat sees me looking at it, the fur on its back stands straight in the air, and a loud hiss emits from between its pointed eye teeth. Asshole. I don’t like you either.

Carla wrings her hands together as her face turns green. “Don’t tell her everything. She can use it against us.”

“Aunt Marge, her fate was sealed when you brought her here. She’s dead. It’s just a matter of time.”

“You can’t.”

“I can. And I will.” Carla returns her attention to me. Her eyes are glassy and manic. “And Leo won’t find you. He’s not as brilliant as my guy. My guy will do anything for a blow job.” She rolls her eyes. “And for a rim job, he’d sell his soul.”

I swallow. “What did he do exactly?” It’s pointless, but I’ve got to keep her talking. The more she says, the more ammunition I have. I wiggle my fingers and press against the restraints. If I can figure a way out.

“He spliced the video from when my stupid aunt shoved you into her car and removed all evidence of her black Mercedes on its way here.” Her eyes bore into mine. “He did the same thing the night I contacted your father. I told him I knew someone would go behind his back and sabotage the company.” Her laughter is like fingernails on a chalkboard. “Me. He was already adamant about keeping the company intact, but once he married Valeria, it would have been impossible.”

“How do you know he was going to marry Valeria?”

“Listening devices in his office.” She looks at me like I’m the biggest idiot she’s ever met. This is saying something because revulsion rolls off her in waves when she looks at her aunt. “Leo’s pretty efficient at relieving stress, isn’t he?”

She bites her bottom lip and waits for her words to sink in. She listened. Did she watch? The bitch. “You’re disgusting.” I run my fingers over the ropes and try to find the end of the string. Now I know how Leo felt when his ex-girlfriend violated his trust and recorded him. It’s pure evil.

If I can find the end of the string, I might be able to unlace the first knot.Keep her talking.

“Did you talk to my father in person or just kill him?” The whooshing in my ears is so loud, that I’m afraid I won’t be able to hear her response.

“I didn’t waste my time talking to him. When he got to the designated meeting place, I came down the side street and drove straight into the driver’s side of his car. I couldn’t hit him too hard, or my vehicle would be too damaged to drive. And even though I had an unregistered car and my guy had turned off all the cameras, someone could have seen it and put two and two together.”

“If you didn’t slam into him, how did it kill him?” Saying the words out loud is like a punch in the chest. I can barely get the words into the universe over the breathlessness.

“I disabled the airbags and watched him die.”

“I can’t believe I didn’t realize you were this evil.”

She lurches forward and grabs a fistful of my hair, pulling me down until she’s inches from my face. “I’m not evil.” The cat screeches and zips across the floor, disappearing into an adjacent room. “I’m righting wrongs. Your father was going to marry my aunt until Valeria came along, and she would have set me up for life.”

“I never said that.” Marge’s shoulders slump inward as if the stress of the entire situation is weighing her down. “Jack never even asked me out on a date.”

“Shut up. If you had married her father, I wouldn’t have had to start doing officer dumbass to get out of a couple of trespassing charges.” Her face is blank. “His price was steep. He likes his fellow cops watching.” She shoves me backward while letting go of my hair. “And those assholes prefers if I fight back. It’s time everyone goes down for their sins.”

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