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“Why don’t you call him and ask?” said Monroe.
“Why don’t you call him for me?” asked Rodney.
“Why don’t you just talk to me in person?”
Finley felt her breath leave her chest as she heard Jac speak. This was turning into a shit show. Jac was supposed to arrive, but was it supposed to play out this way? Could they have been sure how it would play out? She hoped nothing happened and then she hoped it did. They were not going to let this go. It would end today.
Suddenly the sofa moved. Fuck! Finley slowly positioned her pistol in her hand while processing her next move. The person who moved the sofa wasn’t looking down. It was as thoughsomething else had taken his attention. Finley knew she had to be positive about her action. The problem was, she had no idea where anyone was except by the sound of voices. Sweat beaded along her forehead and over her top lip. She could hear every pounding beat of her heart in her chest and the echoing beat in her ears.
“Hello? Anyone here?”
Fuck! Darcy. She had walked right into the shit show. She was afraid of this man she called Ace, and what she was most afraid of was him finding or seeing her. She was scared to death of him, and that was what was happening right now. Finley had promised that Jac’s team had this covered, and it had all gone to hell in a handbasket. What to do?
“Well, come in. Join the party. You left without telling anyone where you were going, Darcy. We were worried, so we came to find you. Glad you showed up.”
Darcy screamed but didn’t say anything. Where were the rest of the guys? How many were there with Rodney? She couldn’t look, but she hated not knowing for sure. And her heart went out to Darcy. She had to be scared out of her mind.
“Cat got your tongue, girl?” asked Rodney. “Glad to see me?”
“You know I’m not.” Darcy’s voice trembled.
“Hey darlin’. You didn’t tell me there were going to be new people here. Monroe, did I miss the memo that I should bring more wine?”
The Colonel was playing this up well. He even had a bottle of wine. So was this by design or accident? He wasn’t about to come in normally. Maybe he did because Monroe didn’t come to the door or someone had alerted him. Or he heard Darcy scream. Good guy he didn’t leave Darcy alone. She’d have o up her opinion of him.
Monroe answered. “Gate crashers.”
“Don’t you hate when people barge in when they are clearly not invited for a reason?” asked the Colonel. “Come here, darlin’.”
“Shut up!” yelled Rodney. He sounded like things were getting out of control and evidently that unsettled Caleb Rodney. “Who are you?”
“Oh, didn’t Darcy tell you? I’m her new main squeeze.” Finley could hear a loud kissing noise. What was the Colonel doing?
Rodney spoke again. “What? Never mind. Darcy, I intend to make you sorry you left. But right now, I have other things to deal with. Jacquard, you never go anywhere alone. Where’s your backup team?”
“More to the point, where is yours?” replied Jac.
Rodney laughed and then went silent. “What the hell! Speed, Crazy, Rush! Snake!”
Levi’s voice said, “Are you looking for someone? We have about seven or eight accounted for. Did we miss anyone?”
“That’s not possible. Where the hell did you come from?”
Mark’s voice was heard from the back of the house. “I got five with Garrett and Ryker. He’s a pretty good shot for a lawyer. Lost the Colonel though.”
“I’m in here. It sounded like it was more fun at this end of the house.”
Levi spoke into the room. “Finley, you can come out and take care of Darcy. I think being our distraction might have been more than she bargained for.”
As Finley stood up from behind the sofa, a gun went off. Jac moved and before she could drop back down into the narrow spot, she came from there was a scorching, searing pain like a red-hot poker tearing through her body. It surprised her as everything went black.
Chapter 18
Levi watched in helpless disbelief as he realized the emergency medical technicians were not able to staunch the bleeding before the ambulance rushed the person most precious to him out the door with Levi, driven by Kaden, following closely behind. His gut cramped in fear praying like he had never prayed before. He held off calling Cash because he was on duty but when they got to the hospital and they wouldn’t let him in to see her right away, he called Cash.
“I’m on the way. How is she?”
“I don’t fucking know! She’s bleeding. Bad.”
