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Vlado grinned from where he was leaning against the doorway into the kitchen. “Sorry, Nicky. But this is important.”
I glanced between them.
Evan’s posture was stiff, and his resting bitch face was on in full force. Vlado looked relaxed, but the tightness around his eyes and the set of his shoulders gave away that he wasn’t.
“You’re sure you’re okay?” I asked Evan.
He nodded, his eyes a bit softer than they’d been a moment ago.
“Okay. Have a good night.”
He brushed another kiss against my lips. “Goodnight, Nicky.”
Cold washed over me as Evan stepped back and left the kitchen. Something was going on, but it wasn’t like they were going to tell me. I was just the stripper Evan had hired to trick his dad so he could get his inheritance.
Wrapping my arms around myself, I hurried out of the kitchen and toward the hallway that would hopefully lead me to my room.
Whatever. Evan didn’t owe me explanations or even his time. He was going to get sick of me if I didn’t stop being greedy and demanding too much.
10
EVAN
I leanedback in my chair, my mind reeling as I processed everything Vlado had just told me.
“Let me read it again.”
Vlado handed me a copy of the letter.
One of Vlado’s men had found it while doing a routine patrol of the gate. Another patrol had gone by the gate two hours earlier, so the letter had to have been dropped off between rotations.
The gate was under surveillance, but whoever had delivered the letter had either been casing the place, or they had a working knowledge of my security system. All we’d been able to see on the CCTV was a figure dressed in black. They’d kept to the shadows, and obscured their face with a mask.
Vlado had his team working on identifying the delivery person, but it would take time to get answers.
I read the letter for the fourth time, focusing on every word to commit it to memory.
Whoever was sending them had shifted their threats from me, to Nick, and had gone into graphic detail about what they’d do to him to get to me.
They’d wanted my attention before, now they had it.
“I don’t care what it costs, or what you have to do. Find whoever is sending these and give me five minutes alone with him.”
Vlado took the paper back. “You can have your turn with them when I’m done.”
I nodded. “I want you on him.”
“Ev—”
“That’s not a request. You will be his shadow every time he steps foot outside this house.”
“I want to protect him too, but you’re—”
“I brought him into this. I put him on their radar.” I dug the heel of my shoe into the floor as anger flowed through me like a rushing current. “If anyone touches even one hair on his head, it will be the last thing they ever do. Any of them. They will pay.”
Vlado folded the letter and shoved it in his pocket. “Understood. But I’m putting three guys on you until this is over, and I’m bringing in our reserve team. I’m not taking any chances. Not with either of you.”
“Do whatever you need to. We’ll worry about the consequences later.”
