Collision Point--A Brute Force Novel by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

chapter fourteen

Someone was playing with them, Riordan could feel it. The alarm had been set off by a tree limb that had apparently snapped the day before. It just so happened to have landed on the one section of the wall they hadn’t finished the upgraded electronics or cameras for yet.

From all appearances, it had just broken off and fallen. The break was jagged enough to support that theory. Under any other circumstances, Riordan could have given it the benefit of doubt.

Under any other normal circumstances, that is, but this wasn’t exactly normal. The same night that they’d also had problems with their SUV? He simply wasn’t buying it.

Riordan could feel the icy rage beginning to build an hour later as he met with Noah, Micah, and Ivan in Ivan’s office.

The other man wore jeans for a change, shirt and leather coat, with a weapon strapped to his thigh.

He could see the steel will and pure icy control that took Ivan out of the Russian crime family he’d once been a part of and into a fortune in legitimate business enterprises. The determination to do whatever it took, to push any limits he had to push, was there in his hard, savage expression, in his stubborn will.

Ivan had always said that for Amara, he’d changed the course of his life and tried to become the man she could find some pride in. A man an intelligent daughter could love. For the most part, he’d succeeded, but Riordan could also see the man who had already been honed by deceit, blood, and lies. A man willing to use every criminal lesson he’d ever been taught to save his daughter.

“They’re testing my security,” he growled as he strode to the bar and uncapped the whiskey Grandpops had brought him a supply of.

After tossing back the first shot, he poured five more as Ilya collected them and handed them out. Riordan let the first sip of the homemade liquor burn its way down, the fiery wash stilling only a small amount of his rage.

“You have a spy in the house, Ivan,” Riordan warned him. “That’s the only area we didn’t have completely finished. If we hadn’t put the alarms in place and tied them to our phones instead of waiting to tie them into the electronics, they would have gotten in.”

And no one knew they’d manually programmed the alarms in such a way. Even Ivan.

“The wind could have actually brought that tree limb down in just the right place,” Noah pointed out, though Riordan could tell by the tone of his voice that he didn’t actually support his own theory.

They just couldn’t ignore it.

Shooting his brother a brooding look, Riordan finished his drink before taking the glass to the bar and placing it next to Ivan’s. But not for a refill. Dawn would make its appearance within the hour, and that section of the security system was going to be finished before that blizzard struck. There would be no getting out of the estate for days afterward, and hopefully, no getting in.

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