Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
So many emotions. She hugged the woman who was going to be her mother-in-law. That was one thing she didn’t know. She should wait, but it was an impulse to tell her. “Cooper wants to get married next week.”
She wanted to see if Eve would stiffen and change her mind if she knew they were serious. Eve stepped back, a big smile on her face. “I’m so happy. But, sweetie, your mother is never going to allow you to get married at a courthouse. I’m sure that’s what he offered. Absolutely not. We’ll put something together. I don’t suppose we could have two weeks.”
Nope. Her future MIL hadn’t hesitated. “I’ll talk to him.”
The truth of the matter was she wanted her family there. She didn’t want to wait too long, though, and she definitely wouldn’t be having a full-on church wedding with twelve million flowers like Carys and Aidan tried to have. Though the exploding helicopter had been cool.
“Kala,” a familiar voice said. “I’m so sorry.”
Devi. Kala turned and there was her cousin. With Lena. Who—fuck it all—had a gun pointed to the back of Devi’s head. Eve gasped and tried to move in front of Kala.
Yeah, it was a theme with the McKay family, and she was going to stop questioning if they loved her. She was sure if Alex had been here, he would be offering himself up, too. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t help. She was the target, and she had to find a way to get out of this situation with everyone alive.
Well, at least now she knew what Lena had meant by doing it the hard way. Kala held her hands up and cursed the fact that she’d thought she would be safe in the club, so she hadn’t walked around with her SIG. Rookie move. “Let Devi go and we can talk.” That was when she noticed Lena had two friends with her. Big guys, and they hadn’t made the same mistake she had. They were strapped and looked like they knew how to use them. She was sure they would have been waiting for her wherever Lena planned on taking her. “So we weren’t going to DC?”
Lena had lost her super-professional look. The woman knew how to hide her crazy eyes. Kala would give her that. “It was the original plan, but earlier today my boss decided to change things up. I called these guys in because we’re getting on a private jet. The doctor would like to see you.”
Fuck. She was working for Huisman. Well, they’d known he’d been planning things for years and years. Was it so surprising he had a couple of long-term plants? “I’ll go with you if you let Devi and Eve go.”
“No, you won’t,” Eve said stubbornly.
“Dr. McKay, put the phone down,” Lena warned. “I see your hand in your pocket. Toss it my way.”
Kala heard the thunk of a phone hitting the hard floor. She prayed Eve had managed to get a call out and someone was listening in. She forced her panic down. It was there because losing his mother would devastate Cooper. And Devi… She couldn’t stand the thought of losing her cousin. A thought hit her. How bad was it already? “Is Landon dead?”
Landon Vail, son of Eric and Deena Vail. Eric had been the head chef at Top Fort Worth for over a decade, and his wife Deena ran publicity and marketing for her Uncle Sean’s restaurant group. They would… She couldn’t even comprehend what they were going to go through if their only son was dead.
How bad would this get?
“Who the fuck is that?” Lena asked.
Kala felt her eyes narrow. “He’s supposed to be her bodyguard, so now I have to figure out which of them I’m killing.”
“I ditched him,” Devi admitted. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I didn’t think it was this serious. Why is this happening?”
Lena might not know who she had. Devi had been convenient. Shit. Had she given up important intel? She hadn’t called her cousin. Did Lena know the connection between Devi and Zach? “It’s not anything that involves you. She needed a body to hide behind, and you came along at the wrong time.”
“Yeah, I’ve been here before. Hoped I wouldn’t again. This sucks, and it keeps happening,” Devi complained. “It makes a girl think.”
Lena’s hold tightened. “Devon Taggart?”
Yep, she’d fucked that up. She was going to give Cooper a pass on his overly emotional reaction to thinking she was dead because here she was screwing up because she cared about the people around her.
“Oh, I think I can bring my boss a bonus. Maybe then he’ll let me kill you myself for what your father did to mine,” Lena said with a snarl. “I was pissed because this ruins everything I’ve worked for. I was almost close enough to kill your parents, but the truth is I’m afraid of Huisman. But when I present him with the perfect way to force Zach Reed to turn himself in, maybe he’ll let me have you. He’s obsessed with you, you see. He wants to experiment on you again. He dreams of your screams at night.”