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and reserved a room for the night.  “Particularly close to Room T100,” I said,
referring to the room I was just in with Brandi.
    “Um,
that’s usually reserved for The Blue Room members.” She said. “I could put you
in another room nearby.”
    “No,
that won’t be necessary,” I said, looking disappointed. “I was hoping to be
near one of my friends who got a room near Room T100.”  I gave her one of my
wicked smiles and trailed my eyes down the pretty front desk clerk’s shirt
looking into her cleavage. “Do you frequent the Blue Room?” I asked.
    “No,”
she blushed.
    “You
should,” I lowered my eyes in a look of lusty desire. “You’re just as beautiful
as the Blue Girls who work there. And every bit as,” I lowered my voice to a
deep growl, “sensual.”
    “Oh,”
she smiled, looking flustered.
    “I
really wished I could be close to Room T100.”
    “Um,
I do see we have one close across from it, with a nice view of the garden
below.”
    “That
would be perfect,” I said as she handed me the keycard. 
    I
smiled and walked out of the Blue Tower, heading straight to my car and popping
out the trunk. I grabbed two large black duffel bags and hoisted them on my
shoulders before walking into the elevators and into my new room for the night.
    Once
inside my room, I unzipped my bags. One bag was full of surveillance equipment,
and the other bag held weapons of all kinds…weapons I spent years learning to
use with skill and precision.  I’ve kept myself alive all these years because I
learned to fight, to fight back instead of becoming a victim. I went from a
sheltered college freshman to becoming a skilled killing machine trained by the
top ex-military alive to become the hunter instead of the one being hunted.
    I
was one step ahead of The Dragon.
    I
got to his girlfriend before he could get to my old love, my girl whom I gave
up publicly so she could be safe. And now, thanks to his girlfriend’s mouth
which can’t seem to stay shut, I will get him first before he could get me.

 
    Chapter 8
     
    Summer
     
     
                “ S o why is it that I haven’t seen my long lost
big brother when everyone else has?” Rachel asked the next day after that
amazing tonight I had with Drew at the Blue Meridien.
                “Drew
and I bumped into him by accident,” I said, taking a bite out of my sun-dried
tomato and olive pasta salad. “He still has things he has to take care of,  I
guess.”
                Rachel
put down her fork from eating her chicken and strawberry salad. “We all do.”
She looked directly at me with a wistful expression. “Growing up, I always
thought he would be the one to stick around, and Drew would be the one out
traveling the world, off to some dangerous but exciting adventure. Who would’ve
thought  life would turn out the opposite of what we expected.”
    “I
thought the same thing,” I said. “Life throws you curve balls sometimes, you
just need to know when to catch them or when to duck.”
    Rachel
laughed. “And I always thought you’d be the glamorous one, modeling or leading
the life of a celebrity, but you chose to go into the profession of saving
people.”
    “And
you’re following in Aunt Sookie’s footsteps,” I laughed. “She would be so proud
of you…how far you’ve come from the days when we put on those plays on the
beach. I couldn’t believe you played a starfish in the Pirate and Princess, and
I was the Princess.”
    “Aunt
Sookie paired you up back then with Nat.”
    “That’s
because you and Drew are twins,” I said. “She couldn’t separate you two. Even
now, you two are inseparable in helping run Donovan Dynamics.”
    “Not
true. Drew does most of the work. I only show up for board meetings or when
they need a celebrity spokesperson.”
    “All
of you Donovans could be celebrity spokespersons. You’re all too good-looking
for your own good.”
    Rachel
laughed. “I think Drew always