A glance behind her showed no one else in the small room. With a max of four stalls on one side and a bar of sinks on the other, an enemy would have nowhere to hide.
Then she heard feet drop in one of the stalls. Her adrenalize surged, her mouth grew dry, and fear threatened to overwhelm her.
Until she remembered she wasn’t helpless. Not in the slightest. And Deacon was only a few footsteps away.
She patiently waited.
The last stall opened. A tall, hard-looking Asian woman exited. She had short dark hair, hard eyes, and a grim smile. “Solene Hansen. My employer has an offer for you.”
The woman made no sudden moves, but Solene wasn’t reassured. “Who is your employer?”
“Why don’t you call him?” The woman put her hand in her pocket, then withdrew a small cell phone and tossed it to Solene.
Solene caught the phone and hissed when something bit into her palm. She threw the phone that wasn’t a phone down and saw she’d been injected with something. “Bitch.”
The woman shrugged. “I’m all for keeping my hands clean. You’ll pass out. And when you wake up, you two can have a talk.”
Solene didn’t feel woozy yet. “What does this boss of yours want?”
“Ask him yourself.”
“But why me? I’m not involved in all this.” She waved her hand in the air and saw it blur.Uh oh.
“You’re involved. You whores never know when to quit.” The woman’s disdain dripped from her tongue like poison. “You’re a littleangel, aren’t you?” She laughed. “Enjoy your trip to heaven, slut. You’ll wish you hadn’t when he’s done with you.” She ran a hand through her hair, exposing a strange tattoo on the inside of her wrist, what looked like a pair of wings.
Something about the word “angel” jogged Solene’s memory before it vanished.
“This is shtupid.” She coughed and tried to rid herself of her swollen tongue. “Deacon’s outsh—outside.”
“Don’t worry about Shaw. He’s expected.” The woman leaned close and whispered in Solene’s ear. What she said made Solene draw back, not sure what to believe. “You’ll remember that, won’t you?” the woman said, her smile not reaching her eyes.
Solene started to lose her balance. She leaned against the wall, just out of the way of the door. A good thing. Because the door banged open, and Deacon entered.
He glanced at her, then at the woman, and his expression grew icy.
Solene saw another side of her charming lover, and that added to what the woman had said, threatened to change everything…
