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“He told us as much, and Tobias confirmed it with Julian while you were sleeping.”
“How did he sound?”
Tobias looks grim. “Like he always does. Unflappable and angry.”
That’s my dad. There was a time when I was a child that he was a lot more easygoing, but the older I got, the more serious he became. “Do you believe he had anything to do with this?”
Tobias leans with his palms flat on the counter. “It’s hard to say. We don’t have any proof yet, but we’re still looking.”
“Do we need to rush the marriage before he kills you?”
Owen rubs at the back of his neck. “That’s the problem. If you marry him, your dad might try to have him killed so you can inherit from him. Assuming Julian is at all involved in this.”
“Jesus that’s fucked up.”
I don’t enjoy thinking the worst of my father, but he’s certainly capable of something like this. I’ve seen him screw over people who were supposed to be his friends and partners.
“Is there anything I can do to help find out if he’s responsible?” I ask.
Owen narrows his eyes at Tobias. There’s clearly something they’re fighting over.
“What is it?” I ask.
They’re both quiet for a minute longer before Tobias finally speaks.
“I want you to call him and tell him what happened and ask to come home. Owen says it’s a bad idea to reach out.”
“I haven’t been home in years, Tobias.”
“All the more reason for you to call him now. You’ve been through something traumatic. It won’t seem suspicious at all.”
I sip my mimosa and try not to think too hard about the fact that my wedding was disrupted by gunmen, and my father hasn’t even called to check on me beyond the first day.
Come to think of it, I haven’t heard from my mother either. That puts a knot in my stomach.
“There might be truth to what Lorenzo was saying. They haven’t called to check on me.”
Tobias stands behind me and rubs my shoulders. “Or that could be a sign that they aren’t. If they were involved, it seems like they would be trying to find you.”
I shake my head. “My father is smarter than that, and unless she was forbidden by my father, my mother would be frantic. There’s a reason she hasn’t reached out.”
Owen frowns. “Bellamy’s right. That didn’t occur to me until just now. Paula is a worrier. She would go crazy unless Julian was giving her false information or telling her to stay out of it.”
Tobias kisses the top of my head. “Either way, we’ll figure it out.”
“When are we going back home?”
Owen lifts an eyebrow. “Home as in Las Vegas?”
I frown at him. “Yes. Las Vegas. That will always be my home. You have to know that.”
He nods, and looks at Tobias, who says, “We’ll stay the night here and fly home in the morning. We just have to keep you under guard at all times because we don’t know who else Lorenzo brought to Las Vegas with him, and we still don’t know how they found out where we were.”
Hearing Tobias call Las Vegas home gives me a surge of hope. I understand I can’t expect him to pull up stakes and live there, but maybe we will find a way to make this work.
Hearing him insinuate that my home might not be so safe right now isn’t as encouraging, but I’m putting my trust in the two men standing before me, and I know somehow, we’ll survive.
Chapter twenty-nine
