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Fuck. This was the call I set in motion three months ago when I took Bailey to Burriotle. She was getting a lunch, but I was meeting an old friend, Robbie, preparing forthiscall.
Josh stopped next to me.
“What is it?”
“They made contact.”
My chest swelled and I clipped my head down. “Fine.”
No. It wasn’t fine. It was good.
I had to go.
“How is she going to sleep at night?” Peter asked.
I gave him a sharp look. “You got cameras in our room?”
He’d been paying more attention than I thought he had been.
“I have cameras in the hallways. She paces at night. You come and get her. She doesn’t leave again after you do that.” He stepped closer, dropping his voice. “I know you help her sleep. How’s she going to sleep now?”
How could I kill my grandfather if I couldn’t leave her side?
“I can’t take her with me.”
He stared at me.
I stared back.
Neither of us said a word.
Then, a break, and Peter nodded. He stepped back. “Fine. I can see if Seraphina will stay with her.”
Seraphina was twelve, and she loved Chrissy, too, but she was more worried about losing her new big sister. Because of that,Bailey would not let that happen. No one would be allowed in her room at night, but he was right. Bailey had to sleep.
And I had to go and kill my grandfather.
I would not take her, so she was in more danger.
Shit. Shit. Shit.
“I’ll be back as soon as I can.” I took a step away, but rounded back. “I will send for her if I can, but only if she’ll be safe.”
Peter gave me a sharp nod. “My daughter won’t come back to us if she can’t rest.”
Yeah. Fuck. Yeah.
I gave Josh the signal, and he separated, going to give out my orders.
Josh had been a part of the first security detail my grandfather had hired. I had infiltrated that team, setting up my men to be his. They acted as spies, but I knew there would be a time when they would have to unveil whose side they were on. I did it earlier in our war because I wanted my grandfather to think when he hired a second team that there was no way I could’ve gotten to any of them.
He thought wrong.
I reached out to a team in Brazil, guessing who my grandfather would approach. They had a reputation he would want. They were known for being committed to the end, being ruthless where it wasn’t necessary.
They wereexactlythe guys he would want to hire.
Calhoun reached out on the very afternoon I pulled my first team from him. I got to them first. And since then, under my orders, those men had been guarding him.
