“Like the girl we had to track down the other night? Did you not get what you wanted?”
“Oh, I got what I wanted. I know exactly who she is now.”
“So the problem is…what, exactly?”
I took a deep breath, trying to figure out how I could even admit this. “Her name is Regan. Regan Fletcher. She is Cameron Fletcher’s daughter,” I said fast.
Aiden’s eyebrows jumped up as his eyes went wide. He knew the history there. He knew exactly why I hated the man.
Aiden glanced over at Evie, who sat behind the computer across the garage. “The guy who killed your parents and tried to burn you two alive, who you desperately want revenge on, now has a hot daughter you’ve been obsessing over, and you find this to be a problem?”
My hands balled into fists. Aiden’s relaxed comment wasn’t the issue, exactly, but saying I had been obsessing over Regan felt wrong. Maybe I had gone out of my way searching for her, and I had gone to town the other night partially to find her. I couldn’t be obsessing, though.
“I wasn’t obsessing over her. I just didn’t know who she was and I’m sure as fuck glad I found out. Her father killed my parents. He took everything from me and Evie, and now here I am trying to fuck his daughter on my bike.”
Aiden tried to stifle his laugh but failed. “The irony here is great. What’s the problem, exactly?”
“What do you mean?” I asked, trying to play dumb. The problem is Ihadbeen obsessing over her. For the first time in a long time, I felt interested in someone.
“I mean, you’ve been killing yourself trying to get to Fletcher for years. Are you seriously not considering using Regan to get to him? What better in to his life than his only daughter? You’ve tried before and never figured out who she was. Isn’t this a good thing?”
I had tried to find her before, years ago, and the moment I got close, he sent her off to boarding school for four years, then college for another four years. I didn’t even realize he let her come home until now. For all I had known, he killed her off, too. Why keep an heir around when, even dead, he wouldn’t want to let his fortune go?
The idea of who Regan could be to me had clouded my vision until I didn’t even think of the option to use her. Now, I needed to see her for who she was, the daughter of the devil.
The guy tied to the chair screamed, interrupting my thoughts and making me coil with anger. I had too much going on to hear this shit.
I flipped my knife out. “I’m so fucking sick of you bitching when you’re protecting one shitty man from another.” I slammed down the blade, slicing through the back of his hand until it sank into the wooden arm of the chair. He screamed, his eyes wide, looking at what I had done. “Tell us where the fuck you’re dropping everything. In exchange, I’ll give you five grand and tell everyone you are dead.”
The metallic scent of blood filled the air, and he bit at the gag again. I ripped it down when I realized he wanted to say something.
“They will want my body.”
“Great, I’ll give them a body. My offer stands. Take it or you will be chained in this garage until you die. I’ll have a body to give him either way.”
“Fine! Fine! I’ll take the deal if you let me go.”
“How kind,” I said, standing up. “Zack, get the information, check it out, and then drop him off at the bus station.” I grabbed five grand out of the toolbox and handed it to Zack. “He doesn’t get a dollar until the location is confirmed. If he lies, kill him.” I turned back to the guy. “And if you ever come back, I will personally gut you.”
Aiden caught up to me as I headed to the back office. “So are you going to do it?”
“Do what?” I asked, already knowing exactly what he meant.
“Use Regan to get to Fletcher.”
I sat back at the desk, thinking back to Regan at Hallows Night. She had asked me to stay, and I ran off. “She might be pissed at me now. It’s not like she was my biggest fan in the beginning anyway.”
“That doesn’t answer my question.”
“Of course I’m going to do it. The girl is naïve to who I am and would give me unlimited access to Cameron Fletcher. I’d be stupid not to use her.”
Aiden grimaced, looking me over. “You being stupid is really not out of the question here.”
“Shut the hell up and go get Evie and the guys. Starting now, I want to figure out where Regan is going every day and what she’s doing.”
“What a way to woo the girl. Send a pack of bikers to watch her every move.”
“Do you have a better idea?”
