Chapter 10: Time To Get Even

Catching the look in my eyes, Leila's pretty face flushed pink. She snapped her suitcase shut, then sauntered over with a bottle of liniment in hand and said in a lilting voice, "Be good and lie face down. I'll apply this for you." Her tenderness hit me harder than I expected. My nose prickled, and I drew a shaky breath. I wasn't this crushed even when Sullivan's goons beat the crap out of me at the club. Leila poured a puddle of the medicine into her palm, rubbed her hands together, and set them...