Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 72647 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 363(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 242(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72647 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 363(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 242(@300wpm)
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.”
“The uncles made us run through really fast. They were yelling like we were in the Army,” Brianna complained.
Liam shook his head. “Well, young lady, you were taking your sweet time.”
“She was trying to bring her friend some coffee.” It was obvious Avery was not happy.
Damn. This would set Daisy back.
“There’s coffee?” Daisy came running in. Not running, exactly. She looked like a princess skipping through some meadow. Except she had crazy sex hair. “Please tell me you got…”
Brianna held out a covered cup. “White mocha nonfat with extra foam. And I got Nate a regular old coffee because I didn’t know how he took it. There’s also a flat white if you prefer, and I brought a bunch of ham and cheese croissants because I figured the big guy could eat. I asked Mrs. Ward to give us whatever she thought her husband would eat. It was a lot.” She gave him a smile. “Hi. You look way different than when you were fifteen, and I kind of thought you were hot then.”
“Bri,” Devi said.
Daisy waved her off. “No, it’s okay. He’s a work of art. Look all you like. I can share.”
Nate raised a brow.
Daisy blushed. “Not like that. You’re pretty and stuff. I don’t want you to dim your glow because I might get jealous. We’re not going to be like that. Now I told you not to hurt Da. He’s delicate.”
“I’m not delicate.” Liam closed his eyes. “Except when it comes to this. For the sake of all the heavens, girl, put some clothes on.”
“She is perfectly covered for a young woman who had her sleep horribly interrupted,” Avery argued.
“Well, she needs to get dressed because we’re finding another bodyguard. One who doesn’t take advantage of her,” Liam shot back.
“That room is sacred,” Ian said with a shake of his head. “It is a temple to my marriage.”
“Then you should have locked it up.” Nate didn’t see the problem.
“And from what the twins have told me, we suitably honored your marriage, Uncle Ian,” Daisy said with a sparkle in her eyes. She’d secured the sheet, and it honestly looked like any number of formal gowns he’d seen. It draped over her gorgeous body. Of course most of those gowns wouldn’t smell like sex.