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Callen grins. “Don’t tell me you weren’t thinking it too.”
I thought my connection with Rose—I mean, Ivy—was real. She’s the first woman I’ve been interested in for years. Being interested in her has proven why I’m better off alone. She may not have wanted me for my title, but she still had a hidden agenda.
“Now isn’t the time, Callen,” Freddie steps in, a warning hidden behind his deep voice.
“There is something else I should tell you,” Callen says. He pauses and sips loudly on his third cup of tea of the day, adding another reason to my list of why I should punch the smug bastard’s face. “When Seb went on his hot date—”
“Fuck you,” I snarl.
Freddie waves his hands to shut me up.
“I saw Killer Barbie leave the restaurant you were at,” Callen says.
Freddie frowns, his shoulders tensing. “Killer Barbie?”
“The pretty blonde I had in a headlock the last time we had the pleasure of meeting Ivy’s friends,” he confirms.
“Bethany…” I murmur under my breath, knowing who he’s talking about instantly. As the designated driver, I missed most of the altercation and didn’t see the Killers Club. The woman Callen describes matches the description of Ivy’s ‘friend’ perfectly. If I had seen Bethany—or whatever her real name is—at the restaurant, I would have made the connection sooner and worked out who Rose was. “I’ve met her before and thought she was Ro—Ivy’s—flatmate. I saw her again at the restaurant when I was with Beatrice.”
“You and Horse Face would make a perfect couple,” Callen chips in.
“We swapped the soup,” I murmur. They both look at me like I’ve gone mad. “She must have put something in it. Beatrice had to leave early because she was ill.”
“Save your concern over why your date was cut short,” Callen dismisses. “I followed Blondie.”
Freddie adjusts his collar, hanging onto Callen’s every word. He doesn’t say it, but his expression conveys that he still feels guilty about missing my call that night.
“I know where the Killers Club is,” Callen says. “Well, one of their locations, anyway. I’ve been watching them. I’ve not seen our red-headed minx, though I’ve seen Barbie and the boss. If Bram and Ivy are anywhere, that’s where we should start searching.”
“What are we doing sitting around?” I jump out of my chair like someone’s electro-shocked my balls. Thoughts of freeing Bram race through my mind. “We need to save Bram!”
“Easy does it, sport,” Callen says. “Do you think we can just burst into a house filled with killers?”
“Callen’s right,” Freddie agrees.
I scowl. “So we’re going to sit around and do nothing, waiting for Bram to die, if he isn’t already dead?”
“I didn’t say that.” Freddie’s fists clench at his sides. “Nevertheless, we need a plan to get inside. They’ll have security. We can’t just knock on their door.”
My ringtone breaks the tense silence, the phone almost vibrating off the table. If it’s my mother again, I will…
“You better get that. It could be your new wife,” Callen teases.
I frown at the screen. “It’s an unknown number.”
“Probably a scammer,” Callen says, but I ignore him and follow my instincts. It could be important.
“Hello?”
Then I hear her voice.
Hearing it is like having a bucket of ice water thrown over my head, making my chest constrict.
She sounds the same. I can still remember the breathy moans on her lips, and how good she sounded screaming my name. Except, she’s not the woman I thought I knew. She’s a liar.
“Seb,” Ivy says. “It’s me.”
CHAPTER40
