Page 83 of Billionaire’s Promise

It didn’t make sense, Kai would up security after an event like that. It didn’t quite make sense that it was only Dave plus a van with two other team members.

“What are you hiding from me?” My tone was serious, and that seemed to take Dave by surprise.

“Nothing.” There was half a second delay in his response. He had to be lying.

“Why are you still here?”

“I already said.” Dave said, his face still expressionless.

“Did you plan the kidnapping?” I knew he wouldn’t, but I needed to make him confess.

“No, no, no.” No pause this time.

“Did you plan all this to make Kai disappear? Is he in danger?”

“No, no, no, no, no.”

“Tell me what you are doing here?” Volume control had already left the building, and I was shouting. But I could tell that he was about to break.

“Okay. Okay. Calm down.” He put out both of his hands in front of me. As if they had the power to block off my rage.

“Talk! Now!”

“We had Ander.”

“Ander who?” I shouted the unfamiliar name.

“Mack Ander.”

“Mack…” I covered my mouth.

“Yes, we take care of Ander.” Fuck! They kidnapped Mack.

“What are you doing to him?” I pressed. Though Mack probably deserved whatever they wanted to do to him, kidnapping was illegal. After everything Kai had been through, why would he abduct someone and keep them captive?

“Nothing. We watch him.”

“You guys kept him captive.” I couldn’t bring myself to say the word kidnap.

Dave nodded.

“Thank you for being honest.” My voice went back to its usual volume. “You can tell me the truth. I can handle it.”

Now that made sense, some of Kai’s team must have been sent to make sure that Mack was being supervised. With Mack out of the picture, Dave didn’t need a team of hundreds to watch over me.

The only problem was, they had no idea what they were dealing with.

“Do you know about Mack’s connections?” I felt like it was time I shared.

“No. We got nothing.”

“Of course not. That was a fake name. His other name is Mack Sun, his Chinese name is Ting Yen, which could also be a fake name. He used to work for one of the triads in Hong Kong.”

Dave stared at my face as he heard the word triad. His gaze was intense. And I felt like he was trying to see right through me or burn a hole in my skull.

No one spoke for a few seconds. Dave was clearly thinking as lines showed up between his eyebrows on his expressionless face.

“How you know?”