Tempting The Mafia Twins (Genesis and Kiefer) novel Chapter 9

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By the time they’d reached Sacramento, it was nearly eleven

at night and despite the lovely couple offering to let her stay

in their hotel room with them, she asked them to drop her off

at the bus station.

However, the minute the couple left her, she was climbing

into a taxi and making her way to the airport. From the

airport, she booked the first available flight to Vancouver

using her fake Canadian passport and driver’s license.

Ten hours later, landing in Vancouver, she walked up to the

nearest flight counter and booked a flight to Toronto. From

Toronto she took a short flight to St. Catharines and then she drove the forty minutes to the Fort Erie border crossing in a

rental car and crossed back into the USA.

“Ma’am, you’ve been through two US borders today.” The border patrol agent was reviewing her history.

“I know. As you can see from my passport, I’m originally from Vancouver. I was in Seattle on business yesterday and I swear, the moment I touched down in Vancouver, my boss was demanding I fly to Buffalo to meet with a prospective client. You’ll see my paperwork for working is in order. Ever.44

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tomorrow morning and the only way I’m making it is by driving across this border tonight. The next flight from St. Catharines was tomorrow and I wouldn’t have made it. I

really wish he’d let me know when I was still in Seattle. I could have gotten a direct flight from there to here, I’m sure.”

“What do you do for work?”

“I’m an acquisitions editor. I meet with authors to try to convince them to sign books which we think will do really well in the market. We’re a small publishing company but we’re starting to make a name for ourselves. If I can get this guy to sign with us tomorrow, in addition to the guy who signed yesterday, we’ll be on the map. I really can’t miss this meeting.”

“Do you have a hotel booked?”

“My boss sent my itinerary, and it included a stay at a motel.” She lifted her phone, “I can bring it up if you want.”

“No. You’re good. How long will you be in Buffalo?”

“I’m hoping no more than tomorrow. My boss needs to give

me a vacation after this,” she rolled her eyes for dramatic

effect.

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“I’d say. Have a safe drive. If I were you though, ma’am, I’d demand your boss book you a direct flight from Buffalo to Vancouver. You were doing a live version of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.”

“The John Candy movie! I loved that one.” She smiled brightly at the border agent.

The agent waved her through and then she was on her way.

It took another hour before she reached the town of Medina,

New York. She parked the car and let out a shaky breath. Her hands were trembling so viciously as the car engine shut off, she knew she needed to collect herself before entering the

Inn.

She’d done the impossible for the second time in her life. She’d escaped Kiefer O’Reilly and his Iron Force Gang. However, once again she was going to be forced to reinvent herself, find another town to run to and hide in and pray chance encounters didn’t destroy her.

Taking her time to get her emotions under control, she quickly locked the car up and went in search of Astra. She entered the Inn and nodded to the person working the front desk. “I’m here to visit my friend Astra and her son. Can I go

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“Absolutely. You know where they are?”

“Yes. Room two twelve. Second floor.”

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Astra told her she’d be in room four twenty–four of the Fairmont in downtown Vancouver. If anyone managed to intercept her phone, they would not have known they’d preplanned years ago to divide the room number in half.

Knocking on the door of the room, holding her backpack on her shoulder, she was shaking like a leaf.

She heard the whispers in the room and the footsteps from Astra as the woman tread carefully to the door and Genesis made sure she was seen through the peephole.

“Password?”

“Chocolate Fudge Oreo.”

The door opened and Astra was yanking her into the room, wrapping her arms around her and squeezing her tight. “They didn’t follow you?” she whispered in her ear.

“No. Flew into Vancouver on my fake id so we’ll need to get

me new ones.”

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