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I smirked. “Deal.”

She flicked a bill from the stack and tucked it into her pocket. “And a drink.”

I rolled my eyes. “Don’t push it.”

Cleo just grinned. “Come on, Red. What else are you gonna do? Sit in your penthouse and mope about the man who almost caught you?”

I froze for half a second. Just enough for her to notice.

Her grin widened.

Shit.

She loved getting under my skin.

“You think he’s cute,” she teased, kicking her feet up onto the coffee table.

I leveled her with a look. “I think he’s a problem.”

“A problem or your problem?”

I ignored her, flipping through my phone instead. Dimitri’s schedule updated in real time, thanks to Benson’s obsessive level of security.

“It doesn’t matter because I won’t ever see him again.”

Cleo rolled her eyes. “Don’t be so sure of that.”

“What do you know?”

She shrugged. “I know that you have a very unhappy person who wanted dirt on Dimitri.”

It was my turn to roll my eyes. “Whatever, we didn’t even take the payment.”

“He isn’t satisfied, Red.” She shook her head. “This is bigger than anything we’ve done before. He is going to want you to go back.”

I closed my eyes. “Maybe I can try this weekend.”

Cleo made a face. “No, we are going to the movies. You can try another day when your chances of getting caught are even higher.”

My eyes widened. “Shut up!”

She cackled as she dodged my punch. “I mean, he is cute.”

I groaned. “I can’t have an attraction to one of my marks.”

“One day you’ll have to settle down and retire.”

I hated that she was agreeing with Oliver. “I’ll have to settle down with someone who isn’t one of my marks. Someone that isn’t rich or famous or a pompous ass.”

Dimitri Cristof was a lot of things. I’d watched him closely over the years but I wasn’t so certain he was a pompous ass, even if I wanted to pretend he was. As of late, he seemed like a shell of himself. He was bored at the events and barely sipped his champagne. He was very unlike himself, and I wanted to know why. I wanted to know more. But I couldn’t. This was very dangerous.

“Sounds boring.”

Boring was exactly what I needed to stay out of jail.

Chapter Ten

Dimitri

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