Royally Ruined (Bad Boy Royals Book 2) by Nora Flite

Author:Nora Flite [Flite, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542046572
Publisher: Montlake Romance

- CHAPTER FIFTEEN -

COSTELLO

I didn’t have a plan.

I always had a plan.

As we flitted through the next week, it became clear to us both that I had nothing. I tried to stay focused by giving us tasks to complete, but once we’d gone shopping for new clothes—which Scotch looked fucking amazing in—and gotten her a new phone charger, there was little left to do but wait for news. Hawthorne kept me pretty informed on that front.

“Kain and Sammy left for their honeymoon,” he’d explained to me, “and Dad still doesn’t suspect that you’ve run off with the girl he’s looking for.”

That had been the easy lie. Maverick had contacted me the day after the wedding, asking for an update. I’d explained I was still looking for leads.

When he’d asked what I’d done with my girlfriend, I’d tensed up. “Heather flew back home. I bought her a ticket, she has no idea about any of this.”

“Good. Keep it that way.”

If she’d really been my girlfriend, I would have done exactly that; flown her away and kept her in the dark. The closer you got to people, the harder it was to protect them from who you really are. I’d done my best to make sure I never got close to anyone.

Until now, I thought, watching Scotch return to me from inside a tiny mall shop. “What’s that?” I asked, nodding at her bag.

She lifted it high. “Maple syrup. I told Gina I’d bring her some, and she reminded me again when we chatted the other day.”

The dancer had phoned back within an hour of Scotch’s call. Apparently she’d already gone into hiding, the instant she’d left the Bucket. When she started to tell Scotch where, I’d jumped in, growling that she should tell no one, especially over the phone, where she was.

“Paranoid,” Gina had called me.

Careful was more like it.

Now I walked beside Scotch as we wandered one of the many shopping malls in the state. Everything had been so run run run that slowing down was eerie. Did Scotch feel as unsettled by it as me?

She was wearing dark jeans, new pink sneakers, and a deliciously tight yellow sweater; I’d bought all of it for her using cash so there’d be no trail. This was the first outfit I’d seen her in that she’d chosen for herself. We passed by a mirrored window, our reflection making us appear like some cozy couple on a Sunday shopping stroll. But I wasn’t sweet; the gun under my jacket reminded me of that.

From this angle, with our arms hanging between us, it looked as if we were holding hands. An impulse greater than I—one I explained away as an urge to keep us undercover—took hold. Scooping up her fingers, I tangled them in mine tightly.

Scotch jerked from side to side. “What is it?” she hissed quietly. “What’s wrong?”

My heart deflated, sinking into my gut. She thinks I grabbed her as a warning. I let her go. “Nothing. I thought I saw something, that’s all.

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