Kane (BBW Billionaire Romance) by Wick Christa

Author:Wick,Christa [Wick,Christa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christa Wick
Published: 2016-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Bag packed for show, Kane waited for Reed to arrive. When the elevator doors opened, he let his subordinate step off, then he stepped on, not a word exchanged between them.

Everything the man needed to know, Kane had conveyed by text.

When the elevator doors closed, he pressed the button for the lobby and held it until the security panel reset. Finished punching in a sixteen-digit code, he felt the cage begin its long descent.

The upscale residential building nestled in Raleigh’s business district had been built the year after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Buried three levels below ground, the developer had put in a communal bunker. The attorneys, bankers, and dentists who once rented its office suites, had bought into the promise of safety at work, even if the Soviets launched their nukes.

Then came Nixon and detente followed by Carter and an economic slump. The professionals moved out and the building remained empty until Clinton’s presidency, when it was turned into an oasis for yuppies working in Raleigh’s tech corridor.

Now, the entire bunker level was his, it interior renovated with labyrinthine turns and dead ends.

If the decor upstairs seemed severe, downstairs was a shadowy mausoleum lit mostly by the small power lights on the electronics that permeated the bunker.

Entering the tactical area, he switched on a bank of monitors. The penthouse appeared across the many screens. Reed was in the kitchen with Dani, the two of them sitting on opposite sides of the island. Kane turned up the volume then walked over to the espresso machine.

The conversation sounded like Dani was once again leaning toward striking out on her own. Reed was trying to talk her down. As Kane had discovered after the scene in his office, Dani’s elderly neighbor had been severely beaten after the arsonists spotted his outdoor security cameras. The old man had given up his outdoor feed to their brutal interrogation techniques, but the long-retired veteran hadn’t revealed his separate indoor security feed.

When the cops showed up to ask about the cameras they had also spotted, they found him near death. He was in a coma now, but he had been conscious long enough to tell them about the second feed and how to access it.

Tears streamed down Dani’s face as she listened to Reed fill her in on the details.

“We’ve identified the men,” he told her. “They have rap sheets thicker than a bible. Sex and drug trafficking, extortion, battery, kidnapping—”

A sharp gasp from Dani cut Reed off before he could add the final polish to the men’s list of misdeeds.

Murder.

Not once or twice but over three dozen times between the two of them.

Kane listened with a voyeur’s mix of shame and victory. Certainly Dani wouldn’t be foolish enough to leave his net of protection after Reed’s report.

Famous last words, he realized as his attention glanced from the kitchen’s feed to that of the guest room.

Her bags were on the bed, ready to go.

He looked back to the kitchen and saw her shaking her head, her beautiful face filled with uncertainty and fear.

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