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advantage.
The minute she saw that hand start to slip through the door in an attempt to
push it open, she slammed her body weight against it and caught the arm with a
hard crunch. She was rewarded with a shout and a moan,
but she doubted she’d done more than bruise him.
    “Goddamn it, Phoebe!”
    She took off again. That hadn’t been Taggart. She recognized
Jake Dean’s low growl and knew he wouldn’t let a little pain stop him. She
couldn’t stay in the stairwell. She needed cover and she wasn’t going to get it
here.
    She flew out the door that led to the fourth floor and
immediately knew she’d gotten lucky. Phoebe had been in the business long
enough to know skill wasn’t enough. She needed luck and the ability to see the
possibility of that big cleaning cart in front of her. Most people would see an
obstacle to be avoided , but Phoebe saw something more.
She saw sweet, sweet chaos.
    As Dean bounded out of the stairwell, she tipped over the
cart, spraying the entire hall with toilet paper rolls, fresh towels, and mini
toiletries.
    But what was a little chaos when she could make big chaos?
    “Help! Help! Please don’t let him kill me!” Phoebe screamed
as she ran past the shocked maid. “He’s trying to kill me.”
    “Well, I wasn’t before!” Dean yelled as he tried to maneuver
through the ruin.
    Phoebe ran even as doors opened and she could hear people
calling for security and the police.
    Yes, she might have to deal with them, but she suspected it
would be far easier to get away from a couple of cops than it would be to slip
past Taggart and his boys.
    “We’re about to have guests,” she heard Dean say.
    She could practically hear Taggart cursing her name.
    An elevator opened in front of her.
    “Hurry!” a masculine voice cried out.
    Thank god for helpful bystanders. She took off and managed
to make it into the elevator right before the doors closed.
    She dragged air into her lungs, her body against the back of
the elevator. She felt it start to move. “Thank you so much. My boyfriend went
a little psychotic.” She realized something was wrong. Why were they going up
instead of down?
    “Oh, sweetie, that’s no way to talk about Jake. He’s not
psychotic. He’s just grumpy most of the time,” Adam Miles said with a grin on
his face. He also had a needle in his hand. “Now, do you want to go the hard
way or the easy way? Seriously, you should try the easy way. This is some good
shit and that way you don’t have to listen to Jake yelling about you breaking
his arm or deal with Ian’s really poor driving. The man has road rage. Now come
to Papa and we’ll have you out in no time at all.”
    Shit. She hadn’t even thought about Adam.
    She kicked out, trying to catch him in the gut, but he
sidestepped her and before she could move, his arm wrapped around her and she
felt the sting of the needle going in.
    The world immediately started going hazy and soft. Adam was
right. That was some good shit.
    “Yeah, I got her. I know. You always underestimate me
because I’m the pretty one. Meet me on six. I’ve got a way out.” He easily
picked her up, and she could see him looking down at her. “I hope you survive
this, Phoebe. Serena really likes you.”
    She could feel tears slipping out of her eyes. So soft.
She’d gotten so fucking soft. “Like her, too.” Something. She had to say
something before the very nice fog took her. “Save Jesse. Try again. They will
try again.”
    And then everything was blissful darkness.
    * * * *
    Jesse looked up and down the street, but no one seemed to
notice the big van stopped in front of the hotel. Traffic moved around them.
Everything out here seemed perfectly normal, but Jesse was
focused on what was happening in that hotel. Nothing was normal in
there. Normal had just been blown out of the water.
    “You know you’re about to get the lecture of a lifetime,”
Simon said, opening the doors on the van. It was custom made, with bench
seating in the back