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know that you’re still alive and believe me they’re not going to take it very kindly. I just ruined my career over a woman.” I could feel the waves of contempt coming off of him towards me, but that was his cross to bear. He would have to deal with it the best way he knew how. I was just happy that something had stopped him from going through with it, because I really didn’t want to be just another statistic.
    “Fine, I will go with you, but I don’t think I can ever trust you again. You tricked me into sleeping with you by using the information from the emails that I had with this Drake person. I think that you should be ashamed of yourself, but I don’t think that you are capable of that particular emotion. You seduced me on false pretenses and after I told you that my heart had been broken. You could’ve easily walked away at that moment, but you continued because you had a job to do.”
    “There is nothing that you can say that is going to make me feel bad, because I feel bad enough already. I don’t like that you’ve gotten underneath my skin, Larissa. Believe me that hasn’t happened in all the jobs that I have done over the years. There’s something different about you that makes me want to protect you, but I know in the back of my mind that I should just shoot you now and walk away from this before it’s too late.” He grabbed me roughly and pulled me into the hallway, until finally we were going down the stairs.
    “Just wait…you don’t have to be so rough.” I kicked off my shoes and started to move down the stairs at a steady pace, but then again I really didn’t have any other choice with his hand holding on to mine. I tried to wrench free, but he was very strong and he wasn’t about to let go anytime soon.
    At the bottom of the stairs, he stopped and opened up the door a crack just to make sure if the coast is clear “Stay here and don’t move one muscle. I’m going to go out there and see if they have left somebody to watch the door. I don’t think that they will, because they know that I’m beyond reproach. They will have no idea that I have changed the parameters of the mission or even believe for a second that I decided to help you instead of kill you. That might be the only thing that we have going for us, because it won’t be long before they finally realize that they’re dealing with a traitor.”  
    He dashed out of sight, leaving me to lie against the concrete wall with my breath coming in gasps. My entire world had just been shaken to its foundation and all because I was a good Samaritan and tried to render aid to a dying woman. It just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished. I really didn’t believe in that saying, but now I was living proof of it.
    This had to be a nightmare and right now I was still sleeping beside the man of my dreams. This happened so fast that I barely had enough time to come to terms with all of it, before he asserted his authority and made me come with him.

Chapter Six
    I don’t know how much time elapsed, only that I was still lying against that concrete wall wondering when he would be back. It was possible that he had decided to cut his losses and was now hoping that those two men that had come into his building would take care of the problem for him. A sense of panic overwhelmed me and I felt like the only way out was to run.
    Grabbing for the door handle, it suddenly opened with him coming back in with his gun drawn. “We need to move fast and when I say do something, I expect you to do it without hesitation or question. The only way this is going to work is if you follow my lead and just shut off the part of your brain that makes decisions. For the time being, I’ll be making all the decisions for the both of us.” I didn’t like the sound of that, but it appeared like I wasn’t going to have any other choice in the matter. “They’ll find that you’re not up there and then do a floor to floor search of the entire building.