Dirty Ransom by Amelia Wilde

Author:Amelia Wilde [Wilde, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amelia Wilde

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Angelica

After our talk in his office, Jett goes into overdrive planning a weekend getaway for us.

“Where do you want to go?” he asks me as we leave his office for the evening. I’d had to wait another half hour for him to finish up whatever crisis management strategy they were formulating, but then he told his secretary to call him with essential updates and headed for the door. Stuart was bringing around the car. “Anywhere you want.”

“I have work on Monday,” I giggle through the knot forming at the base of my stomach. My heartbeat won’t slow down, won’t relax. Hadley would be irate if I took another unscheduled day off, but Charlie....

God knows what Charlie would do.

“The Hamptons it is,” Jett said, and he reels off several instructions to Stuart as he climbs out of the driver’s seat to open the doors for us.

All weekend at Jett’s absurdly large mansion in the Hamptons, I force down the urge to tell him everything and beg him to drive me to the airport. Charlie might not know where my brother is, but I do—and if you know where to look, he wouldn’t be hard to find.

Maybe I should have told Adam to hide, to go somewhere nobody would think of looking, but of course that hadn’t been on my mind. I was the idiot who thought that silence meant his involvement was over.

I compromise by calling Adam on Sunday while Jett’s in the shower. He picks up on the third ring, laughter in his voice.

“What’s up, Angie?”

“You haven’t seen anybody following you, have you?” The moment I hear my brother’s voice, all of my carefully planned words fly right out of my head.

“No. Why?” I can hear him swallow worriedly over the phone. “Did...did something happen?”

“Charlie found out you left the city, and he’s not happy.”

There’s a short pause, then, “I’m coming back today.”

“Don’t!”

“What the fuck, Angie? You can’t expect me to stay here while you’re all—”

“What are you going to do, Adam? Be a sitting duck in your apartment, or at the bar?” I take in a deep breath, let it out. “I don’t have a lot of time to talk, but… listen, it’s taking longer than I thought to resolve all this, and if you’re here, Charlie’s going to use you against me. Be on the lookout. He made it seem like they were trying to find you.”

“Okay,” Adam says, his voice tight. “But what the hell? This was supposed to be a one-time thing.”

I can’t keep the exasperation out of my voice. “We both know that’s bullshit.” I hear the shower turn off in the bathroom. “I have to go. Be careful. I love you.”

“I will. Love you, too.”

“Angelica?”

I drop my phone guiltily onto the surface of the bed as Jett strides in from the master bathroom, gloriously naked, ripped abs on full display, toweling off his dark hair and grinning at me.

“Hey,” I say. No matter what’s happening, the sight of him like this takes my breath away.

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