CHAPTER 40
THE ASSISTANT
This was either the smartest thing or the stupidest thing I’d ever done.
Before we left for the hostel, before Brax kissed me for what might have been the final time, he’d told me that it wasn’t too late to back out. But it was. The preparations had been made. Jerry had glossed over the details, but I knew Alexa had pretended to be Silvio and sent an email to the kidnappers, telling them that Meera’s sister had arrived in town and kept asking difficult questions. Perhaps, Alexa-s***h-Silvio suggested, the easiest way to avoid an American woman stirring up trouble would be to pick me up too. The kidnappers had taken the bait. The fact that Brax had pushed the bidding on Meera up to a hundred and fifty thousand bucks had probably helped.
As for Silvio, he was bei
