Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 90276 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90276 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
Kai wasn’t easily shaken, if at all. I suspected he had no family, nothing to give him a weakness and by the look of the scars under his shirt, the man knew pain and was numb to it. “Who do you work for, Kai?”
There it was. The slight shift in weight, not actually moving, but like an inner jerk that only someone as advanced as my men and me could read. It was all I needed. Kai worked for someone and that meant they were way more powerful than him.
“And I think it’s not up to her or you … is it? It’s up to whoever you work for.” Kai met my eyes and didn’t say anything. That cocky smirk was gone, and all I saw were blank, numb, dead eyes. It was the look we hated to see when trying to extract info from a person because you knew no matter what you did, you’d never get him to talk.
“Why did you really come here, Kai?” I kept my voice steady and calm, watching every shift in Kai’s movements, which were barely any.
“Lionel’s dead.”
“Fuck.” I knew what that meant and so did Tyler. We looked at one another.
“Place was ransacked. Police say it’s a burglary gone wrong.”
I didn’t believe in coincidences. Not a chance in hell it was a burglary gone wrong. More like a murder gone right.
I felt the tension rippling in my muscles and my heart pumping so hard it felt like there was a riot inside me. Lionel was dead. Georgie had been at Lionel’s. They’d been seen at Avalanche together according to Matt.
“You fuckin’ put Georgie right in the middle of this?” I had my gun at his temple in half a second and Kai never moved. Even the rhythmic turning of the empty mug remained steady. I cocked the hammer and still Kai did nothing. I hated men like this. He had no qualms if I pulled the trigger. I even wondered if he wanted me to. Men like him had nothing to live for and everything to die for.
“Boss,” Tyler slowly put his hand over top of the barrel of the gun.
I knew damn well Kai had a knife drawn under the table ready to slit the femoral artery in my inner thigh the second it looked like I’d pull the trigger. Tyler saw it, too.
“She needs to finish an assignment.”
“For you or for whomever you work for?”
“Does it matter?”
“You really are a cold-hearted son of a bitch,” Tyler said. He snorted and kicked at the empty chair beside him. “Shoot him, Boss. I have no problems cleaning up the mess.”
Kai uncrossed his ankles and leaned forward in his chair, lowering his voice. “The consequences of her telling you about me—your life. She knew that. Those I work for won’t be as … understanding as I am.”
I snorted. “You’re not understanding, Kai. That is fuckin’ bullshit. Let’s make this simple for you, Kai. If you or any of your little friends even breathe on her, I’m coming for all of you. Every single one of you.”
Kai gave a single nod as if with respect. I didn’t like it. Shit, I didn’t like any of this because I had no control over it. I researched. I planned. I got in and out of a situation before they even knew my men or me were there. Suddenly, I was in the dark and I fuckin’ hated it. What was worse was that Kai was a fuckin’ mystery. I didn’t know whether he was good, bad or indifferent.
“Why do you think I was given the task to gain Georgie’s trust? You’re not the type of man to believe in coincidences. Nor am I.”
What the fuck? Suddenly, my brain began to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Connor dying, or so we were made to believe.
A few months later, Kai showing up in Toronto right after.
Kai bumping into Georgie at Robbie’s place.
Kai taking a menial job to kill a couple drug dealers who stole money from a MC club.
But where did this all start … My jaw tightened as I said, “Connor.”
Tyler groaned. “Shit storm.”
Kai said, “Yes. They have him. The people I work for.”
“Who are they, Kai?” I asked.
He ignored me. “Everything you thought you knew about Connor is dead. He will even kill her if he has to.” I saw the scars on Kai and I knew without a doubt Connor now wore similar ones. Who the hell was Kai affiliated with? “Georgie won’t be free of them now that they have Connor. I give her minor assignments so she’ll stay safe. She’s just lucky they haven’t taken her in, too.” Kai chuckled. “My guess is they didn’t want to have to deal with you if Georgie disappeared.” He sobered again. “Or a tactic to help Connor … see things their way. My guess is that is why they let you live instead of killing you right from the beginning. Despite how this looks, killing is not how they generally go about things. Coercion—yes. Torture—definitely. Death is too final.”