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“Now that I’m not so overwhelmed with emotions, I think we needed to let her go,” he said with a big exhale. “If we had fought, he would have released more photos until she left willingly.”

“He’s right,” Ru said from the door.

My friend looked like hell; his eyes were red and puffy like he had had a sleepless night.

“I don’t like that she left knowing we had given up on her,” he sighed, coming and sitting on my other side. “I hate that I let her just walk away.”

He laid down next to me, our shoulders touching as Levi threw his arm over my sheet to lay his hand on Ru’s shoulder.

“We let her walk away,” I said, hating the truth.

“Her asshole ex gave us no choice,” Levi said, snuggling into my shoulder as he squeezed Ru’s shoulder. “Are we all on the same page now?”

I nodded as Ru stayed quiet.

“If it’s possible, we can try and keep the photos out of the press, but if we have to—” Ru sighed, running a hand through his hair. “We will blow up my career and make it fucking worth it.”

I looked over to Levi who was grinning.

“We won’t have to blow up your career,” Levi grinned sitting up. “You’re making the first part of my plan easy.”

“First part?” Ru sat up.

I looked over Levi’s shoulder to see his laptop out with another screen on the side, important information on both screens.

“What did you do, Levi?” I grinned.

“So, last night I thought about who Lorenzo is,” he smirked. “I found his last name Villalobos on her brother's picture app and then I decided to find out everything and anything on him. There was a lot about him and his father on the internet.”

“Gomdori, what did you find?” Ru leaned forward.

“Well, first I wanted to know if anyone knew why she was marrying him.” Levi got up and we followed him to his setup.

“Her parents wanted her to marry Lorenzo so she could help secure their merger,” I said. “Even though she said they had been doing business since she was younger.”

“I got that impression, but I didn’t know why they had to marry,” Levi said, typing away. “They are flying out today at ten-thirty in the morning, so we need to either get there and stop them before they enter or we will have to buy tickets so we can meet them at their gate.”

“I’ll buy tickets just in case.” Ru took his phone out.

“Wait, but how the hell are we going to get her back without any fallout?” I asked, afraid to get too hopeful.

“Oh, my sweet man, while I was digging⁠—”

Levi described what he had found and each time I thought he was done, he kept talking. I knew Levi was a computer genius, but shit…I never wanted to be on his bad side.

32. Violeta

I don’t need a knight; I need three men to tell me they choose me.

The loud pounding on my door scared the shit out of me. Lorenzo’s voice was like nails on a chalkboard and his condescending tone needed to fuck off somewhere the sun doesn’t shine.

“You hear me?” he shouted, already fed up with me.

I looked over at the hotel's clock. It was six-thirty in the morning. Lorenzo didn’t specify what time the flight was, but of course this asshole would choose an ungodly hour. It didn’t help that I had slept like shit. Sleeping with the guys for a few weeks probably ruined me for life.

Another obnoxious pounding on the door pulled me out of the downward spiral I was heading toward.

“Ok!” I snapped.