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He shoves his hands in his pockets and narrows his eyes. “Like I said, keep your bloody hands off her.”
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Tobias
It’s taking everything in my power not to hurl Owen out the window. I’m not easily provoked to violence or murder, but I’ll do it if I have to. Even if it’s my former best friend.
But I need him right now, so I take a deep breath and walk away from the situation to make a few phone calls. My meetings with those in my inner circle didn’t bear the fruit I’d hoped they would. Hopefully, the traps I’ve laid will give us something soon. And I’m still working my contacts to see if I can dig up anything that points to something other than someone on my team betraying me.
It could also be someone trying to betray my father, or Julian Harper, my future father-in-law. If I’m going to dig into all of those people, Owen will be invaluable.
“Six more people are confirmed dead at the church. It’s turned into a goddamn massacre,” I say, trying to change the subject to something useful.
“Bloody hell,” Owen curses. “Do we have names of the dead?”
I shake my head.
“Not yet. I’m working on it.”
“Any reason to think we might need to leave quickly?” Owen asks.
“Nothing specific. But I put a lot of feelers out while I was gone. One might lead back to us, and we need to be ready to move if it does. It’s best that we plan to move in the morning no matter what happens.”
Owen flashes a thumbs up and flips his computer around to show me what looks like a spreadsheet. I pay people to interpret spreadsheets for me, so I don’t have to deal with the headache. I look at him expectantly when he doesn’t say anything.
“Someone definitely paid the three men I showed you earlier. Trouble is, they bounced the money all over the place and it’s taking time to track the original source.”
“What will make it go faster?” I ask.
Owen shakes his head. “Nothing. We just have to let the process play out. I’ve got all my resources on this.”
I put my hands on the table and lean down, getting in his face. “You’re lucky I need all those resources, or we would have a more serious discussion about you touching things that don’t belong to you.”
Chapter ten
Chapter 9
Bellamy
Istepintotheliving room in time to hear Tobias admonish Owen for touching things that don’t belong to him. Owen looks like he’s ready to punch him, but he doesn’t say anything.
If I didn’t think Owen and I were horribly wrong for kissing, I might be pissed at Tobias for referring to me as a thing. But I do think we were wrong, so my anger is a distant emotion that I’ll address later. Still, the tension between Owen and Tobias is entirely too thick, and I can’t handle being in the same space with them any longer. I slip back into my room before they can see me and pick up the phone beside my bed and call the front desk.
“Is there a bar or something open?”
“Yes, ma’am, on the ground floor.”
I grab my room key and open the door to my room.
“I’m running downstairs to get a toiletry kit from the front desk.”
Tobias frowns at me. “Didn’t my people get your toiletries from the house?”
I shake my head. “Looks like they forgot my toothbrush. I’ll just be a minute, I promise.”
“I’ll come with you.” Both men stand and speak in unison, and I hold up a hand.
“Please don’t. I just need a minute to myself to breathe. I’ll be fine going to the lobby and coming right back up. No one knows we’re here.”
