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Cayden was going to go insane when he heard this, and he would
hear about it. There would be no way to keep it from him, especially since
Langdon was his personal bodyguard.
    I looked back at Jewel and knew I had to find a
way to get her out of this mess.
    “Jewel, you need to get back into the elevator.
Stop on several different floors then either go back to Claudia and Bean’s or
take the fire exit to your car. You need to get out of this mess. My bodyguard
and Cayden’s bodyguard will be here soon. They will get me out of here.”
    “No, I am not going to leave you,” she said with
tears in her eyes.
    “Listen to me. I do not want you involved any
more than you already are. You do not need to worry about me. Do what I am
asking for me, please.”
    Jewel looked at me for a long moment and shook
her head in agreement. She hugged my neck and stepped back into the elevator. I
watched when it stopped on the fifth floor before it went up to the eighth
floor. I stopped watching the numbers and stood in complete silence, beyond mad
at myself as well as a little dazed. When my cell phone rang, it startled me.
    “Hello,” I answered.
    “Winter, this is Langdon. Where are you? I am
almost at the apartment building now.”
    “I’m on the fourth floor. The press was swarming
the lobby, but I don’t know where they are now.”
    “Winter, is there an elevator or stairs?”
    “Both. I took the elevator, but there is a
stairwell for fire exits.”
    “Get back into the elevator,” he said. “Stop on
more than one floor then go to the second floor. Find the fire exit and wait
there. Do not go into the stairwell,” Langdon instructed then the phone went
dead.
    I walked toward the elevator. I heard the bell,
the doors opened. I watched in horror. Three men exited with cameras in
position. They had already started taking pictures of me before they stepped
out of the elevator. I held my hand up to my face and froze.
    “Please,” I said. “I am not interesting at all.
You are wasting your time here with me.” It seemed my voice was small.
    “Winter. Can I call you Winter?” A large dark
curly-haired man asked while still snapping pictures. I ignored him and tried
to cover my face. I backed up from the camera lenses that were extremely close
to me.
    “Don’t be that way, we just want to ask you a
few questions,” another voice rang out.
    “I do not have anything to say,” I replied,
hoping to buy some time.
    I wasn’t going to make it to the second floor.
All I could do was hope Langdon would finally find me here. At least three
people were much more manageable than the horde of press I ran into down in the
lobby.
    The third man joined in . “We are trying
to do our job here. You are making things much more difficult than they need to
be.”
    “You know, breaking into apartment buildings and
evading people’s privacy is not what I would call a job!”
    The dark curly-haired man laughed a breathy
sound. “When you decide to hook up with famous people, you should know what you
are getting into.”
    “Just because someone is famous does not give
you the right to every piece of their life.” I was really getting pissed off.
All I could think about was how hard things were for Cayden due to these
people.
    “What can you tell us about
Chandler
? Why is he not here with you?” the
dark curly-haired man asked. “It seems you two are quite cozy.”
    “It is none of your business why I am here or
where
Chandler
is!”
    The third man with red hair asked, “How do you
feel about Cayden Cain? We hear rumors you two were staying in the same hotel
without his brother
Chandler
.
Wouldn’t you like to set the record straight?”
    “No,” I said.
    “No, you weren’t staying at the same hotel, or
no, you don’t want to set the record straight?”
    “Or maybe you are interested in having a little
brother action.” The dark curly-haired man smirked, trying to bait me. “Playing
both brothers, huh? Share and share alike,