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His eyebrows rose. “Is that the way you kiss me?”
Then his arms were around her and he was kissing her like he wanted to consume her. Which left her trembling with need as he left. It took her a long while to walk into the solarium where her phone was. Sitting, she waited for his call.
Nerves filledher as she stared at the time for what felt like the hundredth time.
The pick-up should have happened by now.
Linny, pretending to be her, had dropped the bag of money off. When Regent told her about the plan, she’d worried for Linny’s safety. He’d ended up calling the other woman so she could reassure Jilly herself.
She sounded like a character and as though she could protect herself.
Getting up, Jilly paced up and down.
She’d borrowed another book from the library here. She was starting to think that perhaps she shouldn’t be plotting out a romance book. Maybe she should be writing something similar to this book.
Urgh, who was she kidding? She couldn’t even stand to read this book!
“There’s movement,” Victor said. “Slim-built, short person heading to the garbage bin. They have a hoodie on. Hard to make out their features. They’ve got the bag.”
“Basilien, Henri, follow discreetly,” Regent barked. She guessed he had another way to speak to his men since he was still on the phone with her. “Thea, did you get any good images?”
Thea was there?
She couldn’t hear Thea’s reply.
“Good. Thanks. Jardin, get Thea home and send those images to me,” Regent said. “Basilien, as soon as you can, quietly grab the blackmailer.”
There was silence.
“Regent?” she asked. “I didn’t know Thea would be there. What’s happening? Who was it in the photos?”
Regent sighed. “Thea was far away, in a secure location with Jardin. She can take photos from a long distance. But, baby, it doesn’t look like our blackmailer is a man.”
A woman? Well, she guessed that women could be as awful as men.
“They’ve got her!” Victor said. “Basilien has her subdued and in a car.”
“Jilly, I’ve got to go and deal with this now.”
“But I . . . I need to know who it was and why.”
“I’ll call you as soon as I know. Try and do something to distract yourself.”
“All right, I love you,” she whispered.
“I know.”
It didn’t matter that he didn’t say it back.
Everything was fine.
Everything would be all right.
“I know?”Victor gaped at him.
Regent’s guts were already in a knot and he didn’t need Victor staring at him like he was an idiot.
“She said I love you, and you said?—”
