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My blood froze. It had to be Ariel.
“One of those. She your rival? You’ve got me picturing a little girl-on-girl. Now my dick’s thick and you’ve got thirty seconds till I’m beating it.”
Ariel held her elbows, her arms across her body in a defensive pose. I’d been trying not to stare at her. Now I just wanted to enclose her in my arms.
Daisy opened and closed her mouth, then forced out her words. “Justin, this is important. I need to speak to Landon. Please give me his phone number.”
“Not doing that.”
“Can you send him mine, at least?”
“Could do. Say something else to get me hot.”
Ben’s already bleak expression darkened to thunder, but Daisy stilled him with a small touch to his arm.
She clenched her jaw. “If you hear from him or see him again, you have to let me know. I’ll pay you for the information.”
“For real? You got it. Still don’t get your interest. That jerk-off is a loser and a loner. If it’s dick you’re chasing, I’ve got more—”
Ariel jabbed at the phone, ending the call and cutting off the ex-housemate’s offer.
“He’s wearing my name on his skin,” she gritted out. “The audacity. When I find him, I’m going to carve it off him.”
Ben grimaced and gestured to me. “Tell me what ye got from that.”
“We already knew he did low-level mob work. This could be another paid job for him. The tattoo says different.”
“Agreed. If true, it’s a warning sign.”
Ben turned to Ariel.
My phone rang, Valentine calling. I walked away and answered, listening to the information he’d just received. My heart sank. Hanging up, I came back to the group.
Three faces regarded me. I spoke to Ariel.
“The passport trace confirms Larson returned to the UK two days after your video was posted. Whatever else this guy is, he’s motivated and has money to travel.”
“If he doesn’t have a real job, he’s being funded by my dad,” she surmised. “Who else wants me? No one.”
Heat broke in me. I did. Badly.
As much as I didn’t.
The lass threw her hands out. “So what do I do now? Sit and wait for him to find me?”
“He’ll have a game plan,” I replied. “My guess is he’s relying on ye assuming the crash was a random accident and not hiding away.”
“So he’s haunting the neighbourhood, waiting on me to wander out alone again.”
“Then ye won’t be alone,” I vowed.
I turned to Ben. “Raphael asked if I could stay overnight at the tower while he’s away for his exams. Ariel accepted, and I agreed.”
My boss inclined his head. “Ariel, how do ye feel about my bodyguards providing your protection? Aside from tomorrow, where the whole team is away all day, and a couple of training sessions we’ve got planned, I can work out a rota to allow them to be there. Probably more Jackson than Valentine or me.”
I held my breath.
I didn’t want her to ask for someone else. I’d keep her safe.
