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Anger slammed into her, adrenaline surging through her.
“We asked around. You dressed conservatively. The kind of person who kept to herself. People don’t change from one day to the next. You don’t get a relationship in a few days, drop your job, your life, unless you’re being coerced.”
“Sometimes they do.” She splayed her hands on the desk, fighting the urge to tell off the policeman.
Harris let out a long sigh. He steepled his fingers in front of him and gave her a direct gaze.
“Ms. Evans, please tell us what happened. We can protect you. This is what I’m here for.”
Gigi returned his stare with as much confidence as she could muster.
“There’s nothing to protect me from. I got into an argument with my boyfriend, which happens to be Mr. Ludovico, and I was so pissed I ran off.”
“I didn’t want to do this, but you leave me no choice.”
Harris pulled out his phone and clicked into it. He turned it around. A video played of the street near her job. She recognized the brawl from the previous day. Suddenly, she appeared on the screen looking disheveled. She ran up the street, glancing back every few seconds. “You looked like a woman who had been spooked.”
“My boyfriend had just suggested I suck his dick in the middle of the street, wouldn’t you be disturbed too if you weren’t into voyeurism?”
Harris’s jaw dropped. He shut off his phone and stuffed it into his pocket.
“I suppose,” he finally said, clearing his throat. “But we’ve also been trying to contact you for days, but you never seem to have your phone.”
“I’m a busy woman.”
“We know who Mario Ludovico is,” the officer interrupted her. “You don’t need to fear him.”
“I don’t.”
The man sneered.
“Would you like to see our sex tapes?” she blurted. “Would you like him to come here and feel me up so you may believe what I’m telling you? And let me ask you something, Officer Harris, why weren’t the police protecting the man who was murdered? Why do the police allow that area to run rampant with thugs? If indeed you thought I was running down a street, scared, why didn’t you contact me sooner?”
The officer lifted his hands in an appeasing gesture.
“Now, Ms. Evans, I’m not saying—”
“Ludovico is my boyfriend. We fuck. We fight. It’s not an easy relationship because of who he is. But underneath it all, he is a good man. We love each other. I love him.”
She paused. Her heart tripled its rate, crushing her chest and leaving her breathless. She loved him. The words had come out of her mouth unexpectedly, but as she said them, she realized they were true.
Chapter Fifteen
Ludovico stared at his phone. When he’d decided to listen in to Gigi’s police interview, he’d been afraid she’d crack. The idea of having to hurt her displeased him, and he’d watched the whole thing from the edge of his seat. He’d been pleased to see she was stronger than she looked, but love … at the mention of her declaration he’d frozen.
She loved him.
How could she? Why would she? She was a good woman. Dedicated. Hardworking. Intelligent. She couldn’t love a man like him, could she?
“I love him,” she repeated on the screen, as if she were having trouble believing it herself.
Ludovico ran his fingers through his hair. A tremble coursed through him. He urged to bring her into his arms, kiss her, and shake some sense into her. She couldn’t love him. She just couldn’t. It was insanity at its finest. Madness. He covered his face with his hands. Her scent seemed to waft up his nose. He craved her. Ached for her.
“Fuck,” he murmured.
He loved her too.
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