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A man’s cry tore through the compound.
Kenna didn’t have the strength to hold back the flinch. Kart shoved Elisa back and stomped over to stand in front of Kenna. She held herself still while he stared down at her.
Elisa huffed her way past them.
Kenna stared right back at the guy. She picked a spot on his cheek and stared at the pores. If she didn’t meet his eyes, surely that indicated indifference. She wasn’t looking away, avoiding eye contact, which would come across as defensive. Was this working?
She let out a long breath because she was tired, motioning to Elisa. “Are you ever going to give her the time of day?”
Kart glanced at the three young women, local girls. Elisa, Lola, and Ana.
“Or, you know, pay them for the work they’re doing.” Kenna shrugged one shoulder again. “That could be good.”
“They’ll learn how this works.”
“Really? Because I’d like to know also.” Kenna said. “You work them half to death in the heat, then victimize them. Then what? Send them home to their families?”
“Considering you visited Brian’s ranch in Colorado, I’d think you’d know exactly where they go next.”
Kenna had connected the dots on that one a day or so after they arrived.
These men here were connected to the operation in Colorado. The threat coming? The sheriff who’d had her and Jax kidnapped from DC and brought here.
And now he was on his way.
Supposedly.
“But Brian’s dead,” Kenna said, “and the migrant workers he had in the basement are gone. So what’s left?”
She’d set those people free in the process of rescuing a young woman. Camila had been pregnant, and she and her boyfriend, Luca, had married in Vegas. Kenna and Jax had been at the wedding—now they were both here.
Another cry rang across the compound, a man in intense pain.
She bit her lip hard where Kart wouldn’t be able to see. Forced her body to not move. Every sound from Jax meant he was still alive.Stay alive.
Kart sneered. “So you do care about him.”
“He’s a human being,” Kenna fired back. “So, yes. Why wouldn’t I when we’re in this together?”
“How sweet.” He chuckled in the same sinister tone he spoke with. “My cousin will be here soon.”
Sheriff Elliot Preston, Brian’s brother. The man who’d gone on TV to say he’d survived an assassination attempt…months ago, now. Instead of reporting Kenna’s actions to the appropriate authority he’d had her and Jax kidnapped from the US capital and brought all the way down here.
And now he was on his way.Won’t be long.
“Like I said. Same threat. Different day.” Kenna wasn’t going to cower. What she was going to do was get Jax and figure out how to escape.
He just needed to hold on. Not lose hope and…
She couldn’t think about Bradley. She had to focus, but trauma had a way of impeding clarity of thinking. She’d been considering that a lot, trying to back out of her own mind and assess what was happening. Get some self-awareness. Consider her reactions this time, and how they were different now they would’ve been.
She’d even tried praying, and it seemed to help her mind settle at least some. But it hadn’t changed her situation. She was still at the whim of these men.
“Does the FBI agent care about you as much as you care about him?”
Kenna lifted her chin. “As a valuable human life? Maybe. Who knows?”
Kart chuckled. “We both know it’s more than that. But your boyfriend is gonna tell us everything he knows, then he’s gonna to disappear.”
