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I walk closer to him, shaking my head like I’m disappointed with the situation. “I drove up and found these two. I don’t know what’s happening. Do you have phone service? Mine is out.”
He watches the scene behind me for a few seconds before he turns and makes his way back to his car to reach for his phone. As he leans toward the center console, I slip the tire iron out and hit him in the back of the head just as he’s standing up straight. Waylen drops and half falls into his car.
Spinning around, I walk toward Kaspian, gripping the tire iron before placing it in his truck. “We got a lot of shit to figure out. Give me some of that fishing line.”
Kas hands it over and follows me to the red SUV. “Who is this, Quin?”
“This is Waylen,” I answer, dropping to a squat to get the line wrapped around his ankles. “Why the fuck do you have Bryan?”
“Is that not who you’ve been talking to?”
“No. I’ve talked to him maybe twice in passing. I barely know the guy.” Kas goes quiet while I get Waylen’s wrists tied together. “Help me get him in the backseat.”
Once we get Waylen laid across the seat, we walk back to Bryan who’s still screaming and crying. We pick him up and toss him back into the bed, closing it up.
I stare at Kas and wait for him to say something.
“I thought you were talking to Bryan. I saw you guys in front of the gift shop. I heard you with someone after work one night. Not to mention the late hours and random calls. What was I supposed to think? What would you expect me to do?”
I crack a grin. “Exactly as you did, but I thought you’d at least get the guy right.”
“What?” he asks, head cocking to the side.
“All of it was part of my plan. I was giving you what you enjoy. The hunt, the chase, the ability to find out every little detail of what I was doing, who I was talking to and why. I wanted you hostile. You know I love it when you’re vengeful.”
“You were doing this for me?” he questions slowly.
“Yes, but it didn’t turn out as I hoped. You still got those feelings, but you got the wrong victim.”
He looks at his truck. “I got you Bryan.” My brows draw in as I tilt my head. He continues. “You’re right. I got the wrong guy. I thought maybe something was going on, and I decided to insert myself into his life. I wanted to find out everything I could and then bring him to you so you could feel his blood on your hands while ridding me of a problem I thought I had. But then when I thought he called you tonight, and you were going to meet up, I knew I needed to fix the problem myself. I wanted to punish you by keeping you from killing him. I was going to do it in front of you.”
I step forward, grabbing him by the throat, our bodies pressed against each other. “Kaspian,” I start, staring into his eyes. “You’re my beautiful nightmare. The only person I ever want to deal with on a regular basis.”
His lips quirk. “So romantic.”
I pull him forward by the throat and plant a kiss on his lips. When I pull away, I say, “Waylen is a traveler, just making his way through. That’s why I picked him. I knew he wasn’t from here and didn’t plan on staying long. What about Bryan?”
Kas looks sheepish, biting on his thumb nail. “Well, he just moved here a month ago. He was taking a course to volunteer at the aquarium.”
I think about that for a minute. “So, he likely doesn’t know many people in the area.”
“He doesn’t,” Kas confirms.
“But people at work will wonder what happened to him.”
“Maybe they’ll think he just quit. It’s not like he was officially working yet. We could tell them he stopped by and said he had an emergency back home and had to leave.”
“We won’t insert ourselves in anything unless it’s necessary, but his family might get worried and try to reach out if he happened to tell them what he was doing here.”
Kas shakes his head. “He moved from Fairbanks, but his family lives in the lower forty-eight. He doesn’t have a close relationship with them. I already found that out.”
I tilt my head from side to side. “Regardless, he has to go now, and we just need to make sure there’s no evidence to be found. People might’ve noticed you talking to him at work, but we’ll worry about that later if we need to.”
“His car is parked at a gas station about twenty minutes away.”
“We’ll take care of it, but first…”
Kas smiles that evil smile I enjoy so much. “Yes. But first.”
