“If you do, I’ll still pay you.” He looked up at her and smiled. “You’re worth it.”
Dree didn’t want to argue because that kind of money would change her life and Mandi’s, too. She stuffed a croissant in her mouth so she wouldn’t say something stupid.
Augustine asked her, “Are we still lying to each other?”
She nodded and swallowed the hunk of pastry. “After these four days, we’re done. I have to go home or wherever and go on with my life. This is just an interlude, not real life.”
Real life was sewing up people in an ER and keeping them alive through the night.
Real life was working hard and putting money away in her savings account for a rainy day.
He said, “I seem to know quite a bit about you, despite the lying.”
“That was all lies,” Dree lied. “I’m really a person of ill repute who works for the IRS.”
Augustine chuckled again. “Fine. As you wish. After we’re done eating, pack your things. We’re going to my hotel.”
“Oh, I couldn’t,” she said.
He fixed his dark eyes on her. “Yes, you will, because you’ll do everything I tell you, or else it’s ‘butt stuff’ tonight.”
* * *
The story of Maxence and Dree isn’t over! Half of what he told her was absolutely the truth, but there’s so much more to tell.
What is that tattoo on his back, and what does it mean?
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