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Yury

I have my back turned to her while she sleeps. This feeling of something heavy and rotten sits in my stomach since that friend of hers arrived.

I turned around to lay on my back. She was turned towards me. Her shallow breaths lightly fanned along my skin.

It was weird seeing someone this respected and feared lay there next to me with her guard down. She looks so small in comparison to me.

My phone starts ringing. I pick the call up as I climb out of bed trying not to startle her.

"Yes?", I ask as I step onto the balcony. "There's a hooker in the same apartment as you right?", my brother asked. "There's my wife and this other woman I don't know here.", I explained and lit a cigarette.

"She's sent by the Qubans.", he sighed. "What?", I asked. "That girl is Rodriguez girlfriend.", my brother stated. "What is she doing here?", I asked. "I don't know. But she probably wouldn't be there if everyone knew you two were married.", he sighed.

He was right. As respected as Nora might be they still won't stop sending random people either to harm her or find out everything about her.

"If I were you I'd go and check on her.", he sighed. I turned around and looked into the room. She was fine. The door was cracked open tho.

"Mhh tell my niece hi for me.", I told my brother before I hung up. I walked back into the room and looked around.

As I put my phone down on the night table I heard a sneeze. "Come out.", I snapped. The door to the bathroom slid open and the woman stepped out. "Pack your shit on go.", I told her nodding towards the door.

"I just needed to use the bathroom.", she tried to explain. "The guest room has its own bathroom now pack your stuff and get out.", I told her again now stepping closer.

She quickly made her way out of the room as I slowly followed her out to the door. As she put her shoes on I saw her drop a piece of paper so obviously like she wanted me to take it.

"You dropped something.", I told her. "Thank you.", she nodded and placed it on the dresser as she put her coat on. She walked out leaving the piece of paper on the dresser.

I picked it up and unfolded it.

Rodriguez paid me to hide cameras around her apartment. There are five hidden one in the guest room, one in the living room, one in the bathroom and one in her bed room. I'm sorry but I really needed the money. He's been obsessing over her almost three years now.

I read it and looked around in the living room. "Я чертовски ненавижу людей"(I fucking hate [these]people), I sighed under my breath and saw the small red dot behind a picture frame. I grabbed the camera and chucked it out the window.

I saw my wife standing in the hallway glaring at me. "What did you throw out the window?", she questioned. "Your friend.", I answered as I walked past her to her bedroom.

"You can go sleep in your room.", she said as she walked behind me. "Not until I change the sheets.", I shrugged and laid down in bed pulling the covers over me.

"I'm too tired for this bullshit.", she sighed and laid down too. I turned around and pulled her closer.

"Your little friend was paid by Rodriguez to hide cameras in here. What do you want to do about that?", I asked her. "She did what?", she questioned not turning around. "You heard me.", I whispered.