One More Shameless Night by Stone Everly

Author:Stone, Everly [Stone, Everly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
Amazon: B01AVWFTDE
Goodreads: 28807446
Publisher: Lili Valente
Published: 2016-02-22T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Clay

It would normally have taken fifteen minutes for Clay to get worried about Harley, but tonight wasn’t a normal night.

Tonight was a night with Stewart Mason missing in action. The longer Clay had to mull over the problem of the AWOL Senator, the more certain he became that Stewart’s vanishing act was no coincidence.

Jackson’s people were days, maybe hours, away from having everything they would need for Clay to get a warrant for Stewart’s arrest. A man didn’t become as powerful as Mason without having big ears in important places. There was a significant chance that someone had tipped Stewart off that it was time for him to run.

And if that were true, Stewart wouldn’t just be furious, he would be dangerous. A cornered monster is bad enough. A cornered monster on the verge of losing everything could be deadly.

Janis Joplin sang, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”

But what about when your freedom was threatened, too? That was when you truly had nothing. No more time, no more leverage, no way out except with your finger wrapped around the trigger of a gun.

Some people would choose to put that gun to their own head, but Clay wasn’t naïve enough to think that Stewart Mason would spare his family by choosing suicide. No, he would want to cause a little more suffering on his way out, and his estranged daughter was near the top of a short list of people Stewart loved to torment the most.

Clay pushed his chair back, preparing to go look for Harley and stay glued to her side until she finished her phone call.

But before he could stand, an older man in a blue-and-white flowered Aloha shirt, holding a swaddled baby, slipped by the hostess with a smile and a nod in Clay’s direction and started across the crowded restaurant toward him.

Clay’s mouth went dry and his brain squirmed in his skull, rejecting the information being telegraphed from his eyes. Monsters didn’t appear out of thin air simply because you were thinking too hard about them.

This couldn’t be happening. That couldn’t be Stewart Mason walking toward him holding a baby.

Oh God. A baby. Will.

Clay vaulted from his seat, ready to snatch Will out of Stewart’s arms and ask questions about how the hell the man had gotten his hands on his son later. But as Stewart stopped across the table, Clay noticed two very important things—

One: the baby wasn’t Will. The infant had chubbier cheeks, darker eyebrows, and bow-shaped lips that made Clay think she was probably a girl, not a boy.

Two: Stewart had a gun in his left hand, pressed lightly to the baby’s chest. It was mostly concealed beneath the white blanket wrapped around the child. But as Stewart faced Clay down across the table, he allowed the barrel of the gun to emerge into the night air.

“Good evening, Agent Hart,” Stewart said, his blue eyes dancing with something a shade too manic to be victory. “I trust you’re enjoying your stay at the Malolo.

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