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“I’m sorry,” Kenna said. “I’m sure you’ll miss him.”
“No more than I missed his mother.” Navarro shrugged. “That’s the way life goes, I suppose. Like discovering someone I’d made an agreement with has withheld information from me.”
“Because you heard that whole conversation.” Kenna shrugged. “We already told you that Camila was lost in Preston’s organization.”
“And yet you neglected to tell me of awedding.”
“If she didn’t want to stay with you, then why make her? She would never be happy.”
“I will have my child.”
Kenna’s stomach clenched.
“And until then, I will take yours.” He lifted his chin. “I received a visitor a short time ago, a sheriff from Colorado. While you were transporting my money here, he told me all about you and your friends. And the girl.” His eyes gleamed.
“He was here.”
“Correction,” Navarro said. “Heishere.”
Ice settled into her core. “Where?”
Jax shifted to stand beside her. “Elliot Preston is here?”
Navarro said, “You assume I wish for you to eliminate this problem? And yet you’re the federal agent.”
“He’s a sheriff,” Jax said.
But Kenna had a better grasp of the depth of the man’s depravity—and that was without even meeting the guy. “He’s dirty.”
“We discussed a partnership.” Navarro, of course, was unbothered by Elliot’s sordid dealings.
A gunshot cracked off across the house.
Kenna flinched. Jax raced past Navarro, a pistol between his hands.
She looked at Navarro as she went after him. “If anything happens to that girl, you’re the one who will answer for it.” Then she raced after Jax.
He didn’t move like he normally did, considerably slower and almost stiff.
A door crashed open, and Stairns stumbled out, clutching his stomach. Blood in his hands. “She…”
Jax reached to catch him.
Kenna yelled, “Don’t!” She shifted Jax aside and caught Stairns. They both slumped to the floor, him partially on her knee. “I’ve got you.”
“Looks like it.” Stairns gasped.
“What happened?”
Jax disappeared into the room Stairns had come out of.
“We’ll get help. Get you to a doctor.” She wanted him—and all of them—as far from Navarro as possible. A man who would keep a person in trade until he had what he wanted.No. No way.“Where is she?”
“Sheriff—” Stairns began.
“Elliot Preston,” Kenna said.
“—took her.” Stairns gasped. “Saw you were here. Laughed and—” He coughed.
