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I took the stairs, running all the way to the baseas I dialed the nues, "It’sto be tracking o to the Trevi Fountain and wait" I hung up and started to run, barefoot through the streets of Rome

Only the actual Ro I flipped through his phone when I was several blocks away and pressed Steve

"Hello?"

I snarled, "Steve, you little traitor I honestly believed you were a good guy The na"

He paused, "Evie?"

"The one and only"

"Oh shit, you scaredHe thinks I’m at my mom’s I turned off the tracker on oing on"

He sighed, "Evie, we are in hot water Servario went back to being old Servario the ain He and Jaain It’s like he’s free or so He double-crossed you on James and I knew it I wanted you to see it"

I frowned, "So you sent me here, into a trap? Are you with my mom still?"

"Yeah, but I didn’t send you into a trap I knew you could handle it"

"Put me on speaker phone"

"Hello, Evie dear How are you?"

I sighed, relieved and scared, "Mom, Steve and Servario have severed their ties a bit He isn’t working for hi themselves a bromance I don’t knohat to believe"

I heard Steve cry out in pain and set off the phone noill be stripping hio to school Go buy disposable phones and call me from there" The phone cut out as Steve screamed louder

I looked down at the phone in horror She really was unassu I almost felt bad for Steve

I rounded the corner of the next block and stopped aht, "Three blocks that way" He wasn’t Italian, Ger the crawl of shame too

I nodded, "Thanks"

He smiled, "No problem You American?"

I shook er smile, "I like Canada Very nice country, very nice people"

I laughed, "Yeah, that’s us Thanks again, eh" I padded off to the right, hoping Servario wasn’t awake just yet

When I got three blocks over, I sn for the fountain, but when I rounded the corner,in front of it I scowled, "Really?"

He was out of breath, "You have a bad habit of leaving ed, "What can I say, I like to keep you on your toes"

He chuckled, wiping the sweat frohed, "Did you run here?"

He nodded, "I did and I a Now let’s get you soet some breakfast Those are my favorite underwear"

I shookme for sex I am fairly confident you have woave away the emotion his face wouldn’t I walked past him to the fountain, "You know I’ve never seen this"

He didn’t move with me, just watched me as I walked closer to it After a moment, he spoke softly, "I could show you so ain, "I don’t want to see the world your way I want to see it with my kids and ht hotels I want to eat at the places where kids eat for free until four and ets a senior special I don’t want this ‘yacht and jet and bank account from hell’ lifestyle The blood money never washes clean, and s you do when I’m not around" I pointed back towards the hotel, "I know you fked the girls in that roo bad wolf and I airl in the red cloak"

His face was intense, "Evie, I swear I a to be this man I swear it"

I pulled his phone out and took a picture of the fountain He laughed, "You keeping that then?"

I nodded, "Yeah When ere in the room earlier and you called someone and acted like you didn’t knohere Steve as that?"