Total pages in book: 159
Estimated words: 155775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
She stood there and watched him walk away. Happiness flooded her. She wasn’t certain if anything could be more perfect than this moment.
Then she heard voices coming from out front and got up to peer out the window. She could see Cash standing on the front lawn with another man. This man had his longer hair pulled back off his face and had a full beard. He seemed older with tattoos on his lower arms and neck.
Who was he? Should she go out there?
There was a strange noise behind her and she frowned slightly, turning.
Hmm. There was nothing there. Maybe she should just ignore it. But that was old Addie. New Addie was brave.
And sometimes sassy.
So she wandered out into the kitchen. Unfortunately, she spotted the danger too late, just as something came at her, hitting her on the head.
Pain engulfed her and then the world went black.
60
“Aidan? I wasn’t expecting you,” Cash said with a frown.
Aidan put his hands on his hips. “No? Were you ever going to call and tell me what the hell was going on? Because I had to hear everything from Greer and Hack. All I get is a text message from you asking me to keep an eye on Bonnie while you go out of town and that’s it! No follow up explanation. You don’t answer my messages or calls.”
Cash winced. He actually had a good point.
“Do you know how worried I’ve been about you?”
Fuck. Cash hated that. The last thing he wanted was for Aidan to worry about him. He’d done enough of that over the years.
“Fuck. Yeah, I messed up. Life got . . . crazy.”
“Yeah, you want to explain that crazy to me? And why you didn’t even let me know that you were back from Las Vegas?”
“Sure, but not out here,” Cash said. “You better come in. Ahh, did Greer tell you about Addie?”
“The girl that you found hiding in the back of Crystal? That you’ve apparently been guarding at a safe house? Who everyone seems to have met but me? Yeah, you could say that. Would have rather heard about her from you.”
Cash had already said he was sorry. He wasn’t saying it again.
“Well, she’s inside. She’s living with me now. She’s mine and I love her. So you’re going to have to take your irritation down a notch. No raising your voice, no scaring her. Got me?”
Surprise filled Aidan’s face. “You love her? You’ve known her less than two weeks.”
Cash shrugged. “When you know, you know.”
“I guess that’s true. Well, introduce me to your girl. She’s really going to live here with you and Ralen?”
“Ahh, that’s something else I’ve got to tell you. Ralen is back in Mexico. I’ll explain later. But you should also know that Addie can get anxious easily and find it hard to talk.”
Aidan nodded. “I’ve been told that.”
“Oh, and also, she’s just wearing my T-shirt.” He didn’t like that other people would see her in just his shirt, but he guessed his brother was safe.
However, as they walked into the house, he realized that he had more to worry about than Aidan seeing his girl’s legs.
“Where is she?” he said as he searched through the townhouse.
“Could she have gone somewhere?” Aidan asked.
“She’s got no clothes and she doesn’t really know anyone. Besides, we’d have seen her leave. Someone must have crept through from the alley down the back of the garden. Fuck. Fuck!”
“Who would take her?” Aidan asked.
“The Team. The Team might take her to get to her sister. What the fuck am I going to do?”
Addie woke up with a groan.
Why did her head hurt so much?
Blinking, she glanced around. Where was she? What was going on? She didn’t recognize this room. Where was she?
Out of the shadows, someone stepped toward her. Was that Cash?
But no . . . her heart raced. That wasn’t Cash.
Who was it?
It suddenly came back to her. Someone had been talking to Cash out front and she’d heard a noise. When she’d gone to investigate . . . someone had hit her.
This man.
Who was he, though? His face was covered in a balaclava. No one wore a balaclava unless it was freezing or they were about to do something very, very bad.
Oh, hell.
“We have to find a way to contact The Team,” Cash said. “They took her. They must have.”
He paced up and down his living room floor, unsure of what to do. Why the hell had he left her? He should have stuck by her like glue. And why didn’t he have cameras that went further than the front and backyard?
Brody was sitting at the kitchen table and going over the footage right now. Footage that showed a man dressed in black carrying Addie over his shoulder down to the back alley.
In broad-fucking-daylight while he stood in the front yard talking to Aidan.