Tempting the Billionaire by Blair Babylon

Author:Blair Babylon [Babylon, Blair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Malachite Publishing LLC

20

Phone

Kylie

The stolen paintings had traveled with Kylie and Micah to Monaco, which meant the bag they were in was nearby, too.

And so was Kylie’s phone.

Probably.

Micah had told Kylie to expect staff to be on the yacht, yet another thing that blew her mind. Sure, she could see Atlantic City bellhops porting people’s bags and hotel maids cleaning their rooms because that was the hotel business, but having a guy who hung around all the time to take care of your stuff for you seemed excessive.

And lazy.

Going on vacation was fun, but living with other people poking into your stuff all the time seemed creepy.

And it wasn’t just “a guy” that Twist had working for him, Kylie saw as she explored the yacht, the one in Monaco, just down the street from a mall dubbed the “Billionaires’ Shopping Center.”

Other people were employed on the ship, too, to wash down the sides of the yacht, shine the clear plastic railing around every deck, bring groceries aboard, and talk to each other and point at things from the conning tower on the very top of the ship. When she’d peeked inside the room on the top deck, screens rising from wide touchscreen controls looked more like a starship command bridge than a boat’s wheelhouse. Big radar dishes and globes sprouted from the lookout like the ship might also be used for hunting UFOs.

At least ten people seemed to be employed on the ship, excluding the delivery people.

How could anyone call living like that a home? It must be like staying in a hotel all the time.

Twenty minutes of traipsing around the boat later, Kylie found the guest stateroom they’d been assigned to, for their clothes were hanging in the closet and pressed.

Pressed.

The cabin was decorated in stereotypical nautical blue, white, brass trim, and medium wood. The effect was elegant, as if the superyacht would be precisely what it was expected to be, just like any other servant in a livery uniform.

The boxy suitcase containing the stolen paintings leaned in a corner.

Kylie descended on it in a storm of rage, ready to rip the goddamn black nylon to shreds in her quest to find her phone.

But it was in the first outside pocket she looked in.

She pressed her thumbnail to the power button.

The screen lit, and it told her Hello and 60%.

Messages scrolled up the face as she unlocked it.

So many messages were from Rita, Alma, and Priyanka.

She didn’t bother to read them but just started typing back, I’m okay. I’m fine. I’m with the guy, and everything is going fine. NOT KIDNAPPED.

Texts pinged back at her.

Jesus Christ is Lord where are you?

Salvatore is all over our asses. We’re trying to leave.

We have to get out. Some guys tried to break into my apartment last night but bldg. manager scared them off. I’m packing the diaper bag and our clothes right now.

S Grande knows the info we gave him about you was f’d up. We’re dead if we don’t get out.

The panic in their words was as palpable as if the letters pulsed with terror on the phone screen.

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