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Now it made sense.
But he didn’t greet Lazarus as he and Kat neared with their children, just clenched his muscled jaw, staring at the man who had been his best friend.
“I guess you’d all better come inside.” He said finally before he turned and headed into the entryway.
I held Thomas’ hand and followed them inside. The place was massive, with towering ceilings and stunning woodgrained furnishings. You could tell this was real money, a lifetime of terror and every dark deed known to man spread out in front of me. The Salvatores were dangerous. If I hadn’t known that before, I sure did now.
They led us to the rear of the house, where thick steel-lined walls separated the vulnerable from the safe. I glanced at the heavy locks, then around the inside of the massive room.
“Don’t worry.” Finley glanced our way. “Once inside, no one else can hear us.”
He glanced at the two bodyguards inside. One was packing up a massive medial kit as we entered. He glanced at Thom, then me. Was he the one who’d cleaned up the cuts on Thom’s face and his split lips? A swell of appreciation followed as he cleared the space.
Everyone stepped inside the room, which was the same size as a small apartment before a guard pressed a button and closed the heavy reinforced door.
Clunk.
The lock snapped shut.
But it was Benjamin and Lazarus Rossi I watched. They were still, so very still, almost chilling. The hairs at the back of my neck rose.
“Um…do you have somewhere I can work?” Harper heaved his bag with him, looking from Lazarus to Finley.
Anna was the one who nodded. “Sure,” she said carefully. “Let me get you set up.”
They stepped to the side and began setting up Harper’s laptop. I could hear them talking as she asked questions and he answered as best he could. Still, there was tension in his tone and a look of defeat in his eyes as he pulled out a chair, sat down in front of his laptop, and started working.
Anna left him, turning to the rest of us as Finley started. “So, now that the Priest is out, you want to explain what the fuck is going on?”
He might’ve not said any names, but we all knew who he was talking to. Anna moved to Finley’s side as Lazarus glanced at Kat. Still, he waited.
“Don’t let business come into this.” Finley growled. “This is personal. Whatever trouble you’re in, Anna and I want to help.”
“Fine,” Lazarus snapped and took a step forward. “The only problem, brother, is that, to me, business is personal. I asked you before to get involved by sending your men out to help, and what were your words to me? That’s right, this isn’t something we want to be associated with.”
Finley scowled and shook his head. So that is what they were fighting over? “You asked me to send a heap of my men down to some bikers’ bar on the edge of town. We were in the middle of one of the biggest cross-country arms hauls we’d ever made. I couldn’t spare the men.”
Lazarus unleashed a snarl and turned away, his gaze finding Kat. Just looking at her seemed to calm him a little. “Your men were supposed to find those working for Hale, the man trying to take away my child.”
“What?” Anna cried, her eyes widening as she turned to Kat.
Kat just held their son tighter.
“Talk to me.” Anna headed for her. “Kat, please.”
“He came after her and Sophie,” Lazarus answered for her.
“What?” Anna shook her head, her hand moved to her mouth. “No.”
Lazarus’ gaze narrowed in on her, those blue eyes glinting. “Now he’s using the law to go after sole custody, right before he takes her for forever. The men I asked for you to squeeze were men Hale was using to gather all the Daughters who’d escaped. He’s rebuilding, and he’s trying to use my daughter to do it.”
“Jesus,” she croaked, her voice trembling. “Jesus Christ.”
She spun around, her wide eyes finding her husband. The utter devastation in his eyes said it all.
“We have a back door into his lawyers’ servers, trying to find the location where he’s at now, but we can’t seem to crack it.”
Anna spun back. “That’s the firewall you’re trying to break?”
