Contracted: Mercenary Shifters (Mercenaries for Hire Book 3) by Becca Vincenza

Author:Becca Vincenza [Vincenza, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Lucas

“Apollo.”

“Bonjour, Apollo.” My voice dropped a couple octaves. It had been a long time since I talked to him, and I wasn’t eager to be calling him. If it wasn’t for the fact that Dominic was trying to get hitched to his human mate, and Quentin on a retreat with his newly mated girl, I would have called one of them.

“The fuck you want, Cajun?”

“Is that how you treat an old friend?”

“It’s how I treat everyone. Now, what the fuck do you want?” he snarled into the phone.

“I am cashing in my favor.”

The line went dead silent. I wasn’t convinced he didn’t hang up on me. I pulled my phone away and saw the line was still connected. It had been many, many years since I saved his life. I knew he remembered, and I knew he wouldn’t say no to my favor.

“Give me the name then.”

“Ah, no. This isn’t a kill. I need you to protect someone for some time.”

“A protect mission?”

“My mate’s sister.”

“How unfortunate for you.” He pulled in a deep breath through his nose. “This favor and we are even?”

“Yes.”

“E-mail me the details. I’ll be there as quickly as I can.” Apollo hung up, and I fired off a quick email with the specifics.

“Are you going to explain that to me?” Mazy asked, watching me with a careful look. She seemed mildly concerned with the phone call. I couldn’t blame her.

“Apollo is an old … friend. He will protect her with his life.”

Mazy’s lips pursed as she nodded, accepting what I told her. It wasn’t a lie, he would protect her sister with his life. Quite frankly, I was glad her sister was in coma—Apollo didn’t have any type of bedside manner. He was a flat out grouch, with a thorn in his foot that made him even sourer.

“So what’s next then?”

“We go to my office and see what my programs that have been running all night have figured out.” It would be easy to connect my computer’s information to my phone and have it monitoring all night, but paranoia ran deeply in my blood. If I did that it would be far too easy for people to get too much information from me if they got my phone. My phone had the bare minimal things on it. Most phone numbers either I had memorized or I would search for them.

Apollo’s number was one of the numbers I had memorized, and I was glad that he never changed his number. Dominic and Quentin changed their numbers a lot, but for me it was never much of a challenge to get ahold of them.

Mazy stood in the lobby of my building looking uncomfortable, she kept glancing up the stairs as though she expected someone else to come down.

“Shouldn’t you have waited to make that phone call in the privacy of your own apartment?”

“I own the building. No one else is here but us,” I answered, waiting for her reaction. I was expecting awe or maybe even happiness. I did not expect her anger.

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