I did not want this to hurry along. I was not a believer in fate, even though she laid in my arms. The time with her was fleeting, I knew she was not ...repared to let go so soon. I would never know if she would ever find her way back into my arms. I did not want to let the moments I shared with her end so soon. "Oh god," she murmured when my teeth pressed against her tender throat. She tilted her head back, her breasts pushing deeper against my chest. At the same time, her hips shifted over me,. Madame Bordeaux sold me to one of them for some quick money. They would most probably be selling my body in a Chinatown brothel.I rinsed my hands in the water still in the basin and then walked to the window. I took a look at the bars, but nothing seemed different about them. I didn't want to try moving them in case I was still under observation. I imagined that this might be a cruel joke, but what did I have to lose? I had to trust Sammy. I returned to my breakfast tray and pretended to eat. ”“I would have preferred my safe house with just you and I questioning them. Saving a body part is a much bigger incentive to cooperate than a few years off his sentence,” I demanded.“We are going with state plainclothes officers for the arrest. The one out front we are going to ‘miss’ when we take them in.” Gray said. “No crime scene tape on this one, just a quick processing for evidence. We can always come back later if we need to.”“At least pose the bodies inside,” I said. “I’m sure you have. Before he saw the man drive in. It was an older Chevy, an Impala. He must have gotten it fairly recently. He’d clearly traded the truck in for this machine. She smiled. Maybe he did it to help ensure that he would not easily be found. He had to know that his brother could pretty much find anything he wanted to find, including a wanted-to-be-lost brother.She got out of her car at the same time her quarry did his. She watched to see which apartment he had the keys to: 309.Ava pulled into her.