Beck: Hollywood Hitman by Maggie Marr

Author:Maggie Marr [Marr, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: hollywood, Organized Crime, contemporary romance, glamour, hitman, movie star, Kidnapping, hero
Publisher: Margaret Marr
Published: 2016-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

For the next four weeks, they didn’t pretend like nothing was happening between them, but they were discreet. There were two rooms in the house that belonged to them: Natalie’s bedroom and bath. No cameras. No microphones.

Beck did his job. He went with Natalie to her table reads, her costume fittings, her rehearsals. He even shadowed her at her meetings with the producers and director. Faithful protector, his eyes always on their surroundings, always looking, always sensing until his relief detail arrived at ten p.m. each night. He met them in the foyer, debriefed, and then he disappeared into Natalie’s bedroom.

All nights but one, Jax patrolled the house and the perimeter. Hudson had arrived one night two weeks ago for night relief. Beck wasn’t hiding his relationship with Natalie, but he hadn’t informed Remi either.

This thing with Natalie was a relationship. When you slept with a woman every night for going on two months, you had a relationship. His heart told him that he was in much deeper than he wanted to admit.

“We have more surveillance.” Remi plopped a folder onto the kitchen island. Natalie was in the workout room with her trainer. “We need to review and we also need to start prepping for the premiere. It’s the most public event she’s done since the threats began.” Remi flipped open the folder. “The photos show a thirty-foot perimeter.”

Beck turned over the first photo, a shot of him beside Natalie opening the SUV door. He flipped through, his gaze scanning the pictures. Each photo of him and Natalie. He was always within arm’s reach. Most time her head was tilted down and Beck scanned around them searching, always searching, for a threat.

“We aren’t seeing Mr. Hoodie anymore.” Remi pulled a bottle of water from the refrigerator.

“He’s either grown bored or—”

“More cautious.” Remi twisted the cap. “Either way he’s backed away from Natalie. Which is good and bad. Makes him harder to track. The threat is still out there and we’re unsure if he’s found another target or he’s simply waiting for his opportunity.”

Beck looked at the final picture. His gut tightened. Much too familiar, much too close.

“This picture threw everyone at Greystone.”

The backyard. Beside the pool, a figure in the shadows just at the edge of the circle of light created by the motion detector lights.

Beck leaned forward, his gaze sliding over the photo. “How could anyone get into the yard without the sirens sounding?”

“That’s the night your report indicated you went to Natalie’s mom’s house.”

Heat pulsed through Beck.

“The house was empty for a number of hours.” Remi’s eyes locked with Beck. “We think whoever that is may have known the security code.”

“What the hell?”

“We’ve changed it since, but the original numbers? They were Natalie’s birthdate.”

“Seriously?”

“Slipped past the installation crew and our guys. No one checked.”

Beck should have checked. He should have known that the numbers matched Natalie’s birthday, he should have been doing an outdoor perimeter check.

“What time?” Beck asked.

“Around eleven. Just before Jax arrived. There was some down time that night? Right? Perimeters weren’t noted like they usually are.

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