Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
He sat next to Kim, their legs brushing against each other. He wanted to reach out and hold her hand.
So he did. He drew her palm against his. He had the right and the duty to comfort her. She’d given herself to him last night and they were starting something this morning, something softer than they’d had before. “He wants to use the drug on her.”
Big Tag had shown up bright and early along with his twin daughters and sister-in-law. The girls were currently at Rene’s apartment, the club owner and his wife watching over them. Ezra had been told they only had a brief time to go over everything they needed to before Tag intended to be back at the airport. He still didn’t fully understand what Tag was here to do, but the most important thing was ensuring they all knew what Levi was capable of.
“I’ve talked to a couple of people at the Agency who owe me some favors.” Chelsea yawned behind her hand. If he was correct, she’d recently had a baby, too. The McKay-Taggart team bred like rabbits. “I believe the formulary he has is one of the older ones. It’s not as devastating as the final drug, the one she used on Tucker and Jax. Though from what I understand even they’re getting some of their memories back. In Tucker’s case, I think being in his hometown and with his family has helped enormously.”
“So he’ll only take part of my brain. Good to know. And I don’t have any close family. I guess I could walk around my childhood home and maybe remember my parents didn’t care about much except money.” The words sounded bitter coming out of Kim’s mouth, but her hand squeezed his.
“He won’t take anything at all.” Tag glanced down at his phone. The man was utterly preoccupied. “Chelsea and I have been talking and we need to do a timeline of where you were and what you were doing during the six-month period when Levi is accusing you of working with McDonald.”
It was good to have a finite period of time to work with. They could focus in and find the crack in Levi’s plan. There had to be one.
“I can tell you that I was definitely in Europe during most of that time,” Kim replied. “I was working on tying a couple of organizations to arms dealers. Surprisingly enough, some of my best leads came from Levi. So I would suspect he can place me in some suspicious places.”
No one said the fucker wasn’t smart. “Still, there has to be proof.”
“We’ll find it,” Tag promised. “But we need to figure out how fucked she is, and that means asking some uncomfortable questions.”
Kim’s shoulders straightened as she obviously braced herself for the worst. “It’s fine.”
“Were you aware that one of the companies your family owns had connections to Kronberg Pharmaceutical?” Chelsea asked.
Kim pulled her hand away, seeming to draw into herself. Her family was a sore point for her. She rarely talked about them and when she did, she tended to get emotional. “No. I don’t pay much attention to what the corporation does. I didn’t have any interest in it when my parents were alive. I have even less now. My cousins handle all the business. I don’t even make decisions for the charities anymore.”
He didn’t like the fact that it was one more thing connecting her to McDonald. “When did the company get in bed with Kronberg?”
Tag sighed and sat back. “A few months before Solo’s so-called work began. I’ve got someone looking into whether or not Levi had been in contact with anyone from the company. It’s a neat way to set Solo up to take a bad fall. We’ve got the additional problem of the plane crash that killed your parents.”
Kim’s eyes went wide. “I thought it was mechanical failure.”
“It’s awfully coincidental that all these dominoes fell at the precise right time to put Levi in a position of extreme power. The plane crash happened a few weeks before all of this was set to go down,” Chelsea said.
“Okay, let me make sure I understand this.” Ezra was putting it all together in his head, the plot of Levi’s forming like a spider’s web. “He set Tucker in motion. Tucker works for McDonald, and anything he gets his hands on will be considered above suspicion. Somehow Levi gets your name in the records that are smuggled out on the data drive.”
“The same one that was lost in Paris when McDonald caught him,” Tag continued. “But Green couldn’t have known that would happen. He assumed his plan would work and that he would have the data, including the shit he falsified. When he’s sure he’s got everything in place, he sets it all in motion.”
Kim stared down at the table. “He likely had my parents killed.”