Stunner (Bones MC 9) by Marteeka Karland

Author:Marteeka Karland [Karland, Marteeka]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 009526-03087
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2020-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The next two weeks were the happiest of Suzie’s life. She taught her classes, put in her time with her students, and spent every single night with Stunner. The past two Friday nights, he’d insisted on dressing up and taking her to fine-dining establishments in both Cambridge and Boston. He’d dressed the part proudly, throwing his chest out when she tucked her hand into the bend of his elbow. Though he hadn’t seemed to enjoy the food, he’d insisted on her trying every single thing on the menu that interested her. Everything she’d left, he’d packed up, and they’d taken it to local homeless shelters. It had to have cost a small fortune, but he’d done it twice with plans on doing it again when the weekend rolled around.

The second she finished her tutoring in the lobby Friday afternoon, she bounded up the stairs and burst into her dorm excitedly. They stayed at her place on Fridays because of her tutoring. It made it easier on her to finish up anything for the weekend and still have time to shower and change comfortably.

One look at Stunner’s face, and she knew something was wrong. “Stunner?”

“I can’t take you out tonight, baby. In fact, we should go back to my place where I know that little punk, Jake, can’t get to you easily. I’ve got better security because I can surround the place with cameras.”

“Jake? What’s happened?”

He scrubbed a hand over his face. A gesture he was doing way too much lately. Until he started giving a damn about what Suzie’s colleagues thought of him, he’d never given a damn about his behavior. Now, it was embarrassing. “I may have gone too far with Jake a couple of weeks ago, Suz.”

“Did you hurt him? I mean, I haven’t seen him in a while other than in passing, thank God, but you didn’t kill him, and he’s not in the hospital. Right?”

Deciding to push just a little, to find out where her limits were, he asked, “How much would it matter if I did?”

She raised her eyebrows. “To me? Not at all. But I don’t want you in jail. I hear they have some rough people there.” She grinned.

“Brat,” he muttered. “Well, no. I didn’t touch him physically. I might have implied otherwise if he so much as looked in your general direction, but I didn’t actually touch him.”

“So? I don’t get it.”

“So, Jake told his daddy he’d been threatened. His daddy is Markus Salisberry. Apparently he’s a big deal… doing something. Don’t know. Don’t care. Anyway, Markus has a hard-on for Argent Tech. He’s currently trying to stage a hostile takeover of Argent using Alex, Azriel, and Giovanni’s association with ExFil and, more importantly, Cain as Bones’ president as proof they cater to unsavory characters. Mainly because, apparently, one of Giovanni’s protégés -- that would be you -- hired an ExFil operative -- me -- to intimidate Jake into leaving MIT. He also accuses me of ‘mistreating’ his son physically. Apparently, Jake has the bruises to prove it.

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