Taken by the Billionaire by Claire Kendra

Author:Claire, Kendra [Claire, Kendra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Beautiful Sins, LLC
Published: 2014-05-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter VIII

Anneke relaxed in front of the television in her sitting room while I leaned my head against my hands at the table behind her and tried to think. It was somehow even more distracting to me to observe the old woman watching the news muted than with the volume on. The room was too quiet now, and if not for the ticking brass clock on the end-table, I might have believed that I’d gone deaf now too.

Who tried to poison me?"

Someone was waiting in that white car for the bartender. That was a planned murder attempt, and I couldn’t help but believe that whoever it was would try again. My heart pounded and my head spun as I tried to sort my thoughts.

There had to be someone else involved—someone who planned the attack—but who was it? It wasn’t just the bartender.

Sergei was in town. He knew I was there.

If Sergei was telling the truth about being crazy about me, then for him to attack me made no sense. Why would he kill me if he was jealous of Peter? Unless he was lying the entire time, hated me, and wanted me dead, of course… I couldn’t rule out that possibility.

Wait… what if it was Peter? What if Peter knew that Sergei was out, and he planned my murder to frame Sergei?

I shook my head and rolled my eyes at myself. I knew I was getting into tinfoil hat territory with that one, but who else even knew I was in town today?

My head turned on a spindle and looked behind me at Anneke. She sat as still as a stone on the sofa and watched the silent newscast, paying no attention to me.

No way. There was just no way it was Anneke. She couldn’t possibly be behind it.

…could she?

Anneke led me to that bar. She picked it, not me, and she did seem awfully unconcerned about my near death…

Did she even understand what happened, though? She was an 87-year-old deaf woman, after all. I was giving myself a headache running through the tangled mess of possibilities, and it made me feel very uncomfortable knowing that, in the end, I was only alive by pure luck.

The black, antique-styled phone on the table rang suddenly and I nearly leapt out of my seat in surprise.

“Hello?” I asked shakily, picking up the receiver.

“Is anyone there with you?” growled Peter’s familiar voice, and my heart did a little somersault at the sound. I was ecstatic to hear his voice, and even his short, punctuated question made me feel a little safer.

“Just Anneke.”

“Okay. I want you to come upstairs, please.”

“Wait, didn’t you want me to stay with your mother in case—“

“I just sent Alex downstairs to stay with her. He can be trusted. She will be fine for a bit.”

“Okay, fine,” I answered, and I hung up the phone.

The old woman was still watching her silent newscast, and I sneaked quietly out of the room and locked the door behind me.

Alex nodded respectfully to

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