Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 72028 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 360(@200wpm)___ 288(@250wpm)___ 240(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72028 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 360(@200wpm)___ 288(@250wpm)___ 240(@300wpm)
His baby had given him the chaos he needed. He put the SIG to the back of Ian’s head.
“Fuck me,” Ian said, dropping his cell and holding his hands up. “Nate, this was not my idea.”
“No, it was mine,” Liam said.
And that was when he realized Li was behind him. Damn it. “Ian, I need some advice.”
A low chuckle came from the big boss. “Well, Nate, my advice is to not shoot me in the back of the head. Are we in some weird standoff? I can’t see, and honestly, I’m too old for this shit. Are you sure you don’t want one of the twins? I’ll hand either one off no problem. I’ll even throw in a new truck. Don’t discount that. One of the reasons we’re here is I picked up your rental. It’s a Fiat. I had to get Bri and Devi to drive it over because none of the rest of us fit.”
“I suggest you put the gun down now, Nathan,” Liam threatened.
Nate hadn’t gotten the advice he so needed. “Do I take him out or let him shoot me? Because I’m torn. Daisy told me he’s got a bad back.”
“A bad back my arse,” Li bit out.
“She didn’t say anything about your arse,” Nate allowed. “Just your back. I’m supposed to be nice to you.”
Ian snorted. “Take the old guy down. It’s the only language he’ll understand.”
“As if he…” Liam began.
Nate turned, his arm coming out to knock the gun away, and then he shifted, one leg sweeping under Liam’s and putting him on the ground. Nate was on one knee, his hand around his future father-in-law’s throat before Li could take another breath.
He could suddenly see exactly how amped Daisy’s father was.
“Charlie, baby, I’ll call you back. No. I’m going to assume Daisy wanted to give Nate some cover so she called in and told a whopper of a story and it worked,” Ian was saying. “However, Nate’s trying to decide if he’s going to kill Li. I know. I already offered him one of the twins. He seems intent on Daisy.”
“Nate, what are you doing to my da?” Daisy was out on the stairs leading from the privacy rooms down to the lounge, still dressed in the sheet she’d taken from the bed. “I told you about his back.”
Nate stood, holding his hands up. “He put a gun to the back of my head.”
“Yes, and I could have killed you if I wanted to. Well, if I’d thought I could get away with it.” Liam sat up and groaned when he looked over at his daughter. “Girl, where the hell are your clothes?”
Avery rushed over. “Liam, are you all right? Did you hurt your back?”
Liam stopped looking angry long enough to reach for his wife’s hand. “I’m fine, my darlin.” The frown was back when he looked at Daisy, who’d made her way down the stairs and was joined by her friends. “I’m still wondering where our daughter’s clothes got to. Did they run away from you, girl?”
Daisy shrugged. “They’re kind of all over. Nate chased me through the dungeon and then we ended up in this weird room with Elvis, I think.”
Ian turned her way, his jaw dropping. “You slept in my personal privacy room? And that is not Elvis. Li, you have ruined that girl. Fucking Elvis. That is Axl Rose, you infant.”
“Who?” Daisy asked, her eyes wide.
Axl Rose. That’s who the dude was. Now he remembered. “Babe, I think he was like a singer in the olden days.”
“Don’t matter who he was. The fact is this man is taking advantage of my daughter.” Liam managed to get off the floor. “And where the hell are your clothes, Nathan? Do you think you’re in the bloody Garden of Eden? You are supposed to be a bodyguard not some gigolo.”
“Is that an old-time singer, too?” Daisy asked.
It was good to know she wasn’t up on all the ways a man could be called a sex worker. He was going to ignore it. He definitely wasn’t going to tell Liam he would fulfill his daughter’s sexual needs for absolutely no money at all.
“Well, I thought someone might be trying to kill us so I locked Daisy in and came out to save us,” Nate explained with a long sigh. “Then I realized it was just the old guard trying to test the new.”
“Old guard, my arse,” Liam began and put a hand to his lower back.
“Li, are you okay?” Avery stared at her husband. “I told you this was a bad idea. Nate, I’m sorry. He wanted to make sure you were taking the job seriously. I told him you were.”
“I was right. Look at him. He’s not even dressed,” Liam complained. “And I easily got him.”
Alex frowned. “I told you where he was because I thought it would be funny to watch him take Ian down. You had no idea where he was, and I only did because he let me go. What the hell, man? Nate, you did a good job. I thought we would catch you sleeping. The alarm didn’t go off.”