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“What does that mean?”
The captain cut in, giving Alessio a moment to dodge answering. “We should be arriving in a bit over an hour.”
“Why so long?” I asked. “It barely took forty minutes to get here.”
“We’re not going to Miami,” Alessio explained.
My heart dropped. Please, oh please, tell me we’re going somewhere else in the Caribbean. “You said we were going home.”
“We are.” He avoided my eyes.
“My home is Miami, Alessio. Where are you taking me?”
“My house in Mexico.”
Fucking fuckity fucker.
Could I open the door? We were probably low enough that I could survive the fall into the ocean.
Having to keep Alessio alive was a major annoyance, although killing the pilots wasn’t out of the question.
I could knock out Alessio and get their bodies out of the way. . . I didn’t know how to fly, but Rod would find someone to talk me through it. How hard could it be?
“It’s safe. I promise.” He put his hand on my leg, but I pulled away.
“You said your house was safe,” I snapped, “You said your mom’s house was safe. You promised not to let anything happen to me, and now you’re taking me to yet another foreign country.”
Yes, Millie was very much allowed to freak out.
His shoulders sagged. “I know, mi amor. I’ve let you down again, but I promise you no harm will come to you there.”
No.
No.
That was the biggest lie he’d told yet.
My heart was pounding in my chest.
He had to know how much danger he was in if he put one foot down in Mexico. It was absolutely inconceivable he was that stupid or oblivious.
He knew exactly who ran the country, and it wasn’t the Mexican government. It wasn’t even the human drug cartel. No, it was the Velez Mafia.
My Pack, my family. The ones that sent me here on a mission to destroy the man so set on protecting me. The same one I was fantasizing about a life with just hours before. A delusional daydream of an existence free of the wolves who control me.
I dropped my head against the seat.
Javi sensed my hesitation on the phone. He could tell I was putting Alessio first. Ahead of them. Even myself. I told him I was doing it to save the mission, everything we worked so hard for, but that wasn’t the whole truth. At least not in the moment.
I was thinking of how I could save Alessio.
CHAPTER 2
Emilia
The helicopter dropped us directly into enemy territory.
Well, not mine but his.
