Her Assassin For Hire by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-11-15T17:42:32+00:00

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HE TRIED TO catch some sleep on the rest of the flight, but what little he had gotten was spent restless with dreams of firefights and lost battles. Every time he looked over at Zoey, she was clicking away on her computer and carefully ignoring him.

The ground they had gained in their friendship seemed lost.

Maybe it was better this way. Some hurts were just too big, too defining, too much.

As the wheels of the jet touched down, she finally looked up at him. Her eyes were bloodshot, and he would have assumed she had been crying if he hadn’t known better—she had never been the kind to shed a tear, not when she could stuff away emotions and try to forget they were there.

“We will find him,” Eli said, decidedly turning the conversation away from them and back to just her. She and her family needed the most help right now. The rest could wait.

“I hope so. I looked everywhere, but found nothing.” There was a depth in her voice that made him unsure exactly what she meant.

He wanted to tell her that life had a way of working things out as they should be, but even he didn’t believe that. Life was a constant kick in the butt.

“We’ll keep looking. We won’t stop looking until we find him, I promise.”

She smiled as she stood up and motioned for him to take the lead. As they made their way out of the plane, the Spanish heat washed over them. The city smelled of dust, poverty and the forgotten sea.

The airport staff loaded their luggage into the waiting car as they got in. It didn’t take long to get on the highway that led to Sitges and their waiting hotel.

As they drove, they passed by the wall of catacombs, the few occupants of the city who seemed interested in the ocean that washed against the city’s stony cliffs. The graves were walled in glass and as they passed by, curiosity drove him to search for the skeletons of the long dead.

The city of the dead was macabre and strangely beautiful, a far cry from the American style of death and memorial in which loved ones were forgotten and tucked away at the edges of society. Here, they were given a view, a place in everyday life, and thought of even by those, like him, who bore no ancestry.

As they twisted through the tunnels carved into the mountainsides, he thought about his searching of the graves. Perhaps there was something really wrong with him in the fact that instead of focusing on what could be, he found himself searching for ashes and bone.

When they arrived at the small European-style hotel, they were ushered in by staff and called by name. Zoey made a point of grabbing her bag, as though she were afraid someone might steal it.

As they checked in and followed the bellhop toward their room, she leaned into him and whispered, “Do you think everybody in Spain knows we’re here?”

He chuckled, but beneath his mirth was the realization she may have been right.

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