Total pages in book: 158
Estimated words: 149641 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 748(@200wpm)___ 599(@250wpm)___ 499(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149641 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 748(@200wpm)___ 599(@250wpm)___ 499(@300wpm)
“Is it Mom and Dad?” Kenzie asked. They would be with Damon, who would absolutely be able to get through the lockdown. She was sure his senior agents would know how, and Oliver, too. She’d shot him a text to get his ass back to base, but it would be a half hour before he made it through traffic.
“Better.” Kala kept her weapon at her side. “Tris is here, and he’s not alone. Asshole didn’t lose a step. He doesn’t have that passcode, but he was a warm knife through cold butter.”
Tris. He would be able to tell her if that video was real.
Kenzie started out the door, but she could already hear Tris calling for them. “We’re in the basement.”
It wasn’t long before Tris was walking in. He’d easily gotten through the security system, and Kala was right. He hadn’t come alone. He’d brought his partners with him. Carys and Aidan strode in behind him. The doctors. Aidan specialized in trauma and Carys in obstetrics, but they could handle this.
“I got here as fast as I could,” Tris announced, not seeming to notice the dude hunched over the trash can or the half-dead assassin slumped in the chair usually used by Cooper. “Gabby is a plant. I have proof.”
“No shit, Sherlock.” Kala gestured around the room. “She’s locked in for now, but she’s already poisoned these two.”
Aidan was on one knee, a hand on Tim’s back while Carys had noticed Sosa.
“This is a pharmacological effect,” Carys said, examining Sosa’s eyes. “She’s almost surely been poisoned. We need to get her to the hospital. She says she knows the formulary.”
“This one, too, and he’s in worse shape.” Aidan frowned up at his partner. “I told you to text them but no, you had to have your cinematic moment.”
“I called Uncle Ian this morning and he said everything was fine.” Tris ran a hand through his hair, pink staining his cheeks. “I told him I had some intel I was bringing him. He didn’t demand it or anything. Damn it. I’m sorry. I wanted to verify my findings with Lou before I did anything. Where is she?”
“With Huisman.” Kala said every word cold. “Ben took her straight to him, and he’s using something to block her tracker. Everyone’s gone. They knew exactly when to strike. I’ve got word to Lucy and Sami. They’re going to watch the chateau, but it seems so obvious.”
“Obvious might be the whole point. He won’t keep Lou there, but I think he might keep Ben somewhere different hoping we’ll focus on the chateau. He has to know we’re looking into it. Chaos. He wants chaos. It’s why he sent me a video right before he took Lou.” Kenzie started to explain as Carys was helping Sosa stand.
“She is right. This was his plan. I was not in on most of this,” Sosa managed, standing with Carys’s aid. “Gabby was the lead, and that mean the rest of us follow. What was on video?”
“A video of Ben fucking the hell out of his supposedly dead fiancée and saying some shitty things about me,” she admitted.
It was a porn-worthy performance, and that alone made her question the authenticity. She knew how Ben made…had sex.
Or maybe you know how he performs when he’s working a job, when the act itself is slightly distasteful because the woman he really loves is waiting for him.
She was not listening to that annoying voice. There was something wrong with that video. She just couldn’t put her finger on it.
“I’ll kill him and I’ll make sure that bitch doesn’t come back from the dead again,” Kala announced. Her twin would fasten straight onto rage because it was far easier than the anxiety she had to be feeling about Lou in Huisman’s clutches.
The video had been graphic. It was Ben balls deep in his ex-fiancée before some nasty pillow talk about how stupid Kenzie was and how Deanna was his only love.
He told her he loved her. He’d laid with his head on her breasts and said he loved her and always would, promised as soon as he’d taken down the dumb bitch—she assumed he was speaking of her—and her family, they could be together when Kenzie was dead and Manny’s revenge was complete.
How many times had Manny watched it? Had he gotten off? Or was he jealous?
Yep, she was going to have to shut that voice down.
“TJ and Coop are here.” Kala started for the door.
“We’re ready to go. Hail a cab for us,” Aidan said, wrapping an arm around Tim and helping him up.
Kala nodded and ran out the door.
“I’ll come,” Tris offered.
Aidan shook his head. “Nope. You stay and figure out how to track Lou down. Cooper can go with us if we need a guard. He can escort us, and then you can send someone else.”