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asked for your help. Now be a nice little rule player and go back to your room.
Apparently I don t have a lock on the sarcasm market. Please, listen. It s not about the rules. I m being
a good friend like you ve been to me.
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I appreciate your concern. Livia s face softened. I only want a real shower. I m tired of shaving my
legs in a sink with bottled water. I will be back and tucked into my bed before the colonel even notices I
am gone.
Chloe plumbed her brain for some kind of rebuttal. Livia might be a diva, but she d never been a dunce.
Until tonight.
Headlights striped in the distance. Some help. Thank God.
Merda! Livia s curse split the air as a cop cruiser crested a hill. She gripped Chloe s wrist and jerked.
Chloe tumbled into the car. Livia slammed the door closed behind her.
Why did you
Drive, Livia ordered the man in front before turning to Chloe. The police were coming. You left me no
choice but to bring you along.
You ve got to be joking.
Nobody laughed.
Chloe tapped the driver on the shoulder. Sir? Please, sir? I would like to get out of the car.
The chauffeur glanced up to meet her eyes in the rearview mirror. No English.
Tires squealed as they peeled rubber out of the parking lot, only to slow to the posted base speed limit. If
only he would do something reckless so the security cops would pull them over, but no luck.
Stop. Durmak ?
The driver didn t respond to the Turkish request, even though no how, no way could he have missed her
intent. Fine then, she would just get out next time he . . . slowed . . . for a corner. She reached for her
door handle and yanked.
No luck again.
Her stomach clogged her throat. She pumped the latch repeatedly. Nothing happened.
Chloe sagged back in her seat, icy hot prickles of fear tingling over her. You can t expect to kidnap
me.
Kidnap is too harsh a word. Livia clicked her seat belt. I am simply being a good friend to someone
else. Steven, my backup dancer, is stranded drunk at a bar downtown. He s certain Melanie is cheating
on him, and he left the base to track her.
But he s cheating on her.
That s just a rumor he started in hopes of making her jealous. If anyone finds out he s gone, he could be
fired. He has a sick mother to support.
The driver followed posted limits all the way through the front gate while Livia detailed at length the
reasons she had to help Steven Fisher. Chloe pounded on the tinted window as they passed the gate
guard, but base security were only stopping people coming into base, not those leaving.
She sagged back into the leather seat in defeat as they reached the main road, the driver s cigar smoke
already swelling throughout the vehicle. What the hell had she gotten into? Could Livia really be saving
some drunk, lovesick idiot?
Or was her friend less trustworthy than Chloe had assumed?
SIXTEEN
Tonight was make or break.
Tension and anticipation kinking his muscles, Jimmy watched the man calling himself Miguel Carvalho
weave around Oasis patrons toward him. One of two things would happen once Nunez reached the
table. He would offer to buy more drinks, which meant the kidnapping was a go, or he would offer to
pick up their tab, a signal that something had gone wrong, so it was time to bail out, bail out, bail out .
Carvalho stopped by their table. Good evening, gentlemen. May I buy you all a round of drinks as
thanks for your service?
A green light.
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He d hoped for prior warning and a briefing at the base before they made contact with the abductors, but
he sure as shit wouldn t argue with finishing this sooner rather than later. He squeezed the living hell out of
the lime twist in his latest gin and tonic and knocked back the drink.
Why yes, you may. Jimmy hooked an arm over his new drinking buddy s shoulder: Agent Mike Nunez.
Miguel, damn it.Jimmy shook his head as if that might somehow clear his brain. He had to remember the
guy went by Miguel Carvalho.
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