The Soldier and The Princess (The Opposites Attract Series Book 2) by Dove Cavanaugh King

Author:Dove Cavanaugh King [King, Dove Cavanaugh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty

Silas

The phone rang only once before he answered it.

“Silas?” Stone’s voice was strained, sounding more wrecked than I’d ever heard him.

“Tell me what the hell is going on,” I said, with no preamble.

“I have been calling you for half a fuckin’ day, man.” I could hear his frustration, and I tried to rein in my temper a bit.

“The service is spotty at best. We’re pretty high up at the moment and likely just catching a lucky break.” When that seemed to satisfy him, I went on. “What’s this I hear about them thinking they have Penelope.”

Stone sighed. “It’s true. I guess the clerk saw it happen when they were at the shop in Yonkers. She said two masked men came in, asking for the Pennington woman and Daphne just up and volunteered. The woman said she stepped right up and told them she was a Pennington, so they grabbed her and took off. The woman tried to go after them, but the guy fired a gun at her, so she hid. By the time Penelope realized what was going on, they were already gone.”

“Holy shit.” It was starting to make more sense now. Of course Daphne would have stepped up if it meant keeping Penelope safe. That was just the type of person she was: selfless to a fault.

“That’s not all,” Stone went on. “The ransom request finally came in. They want me to step down as CEO of Pennington Hotels. They said if I ever want to see my ‘wife’ again, I needed to announce my resignation by midnight tomorrow.”

“What the ever-lovin’ fuck? You think this is some corporate espionage kind of shit?”

“I don’t know what to think. Mom and Dad have flown in from Texas and we’re talking to all kinds of lawyers and security firms.” From the sounds coming through the phone, I could tell that Stone was leaving whatever room he was in and was headed for somewhere private. That meant he wanted to tell me something, and he didn’t want Penelope to hear it. The last thing he would ever want to do was upset her, especially now that she was pregnant.

“Silas, man, this is fuckin’ crazy. Who in the hell gives one single shit about my position in the company? It’s not like I’m some all-powerful political personality or anything. I’m just a guy, trying to run a company the best way I know how. I don’t have any lawsuits against me, no disgruntled employees I can find—and we’ve looked—not even an angry guest who might hold a grudge. Pennington hotels is a good company, a good place to work. Who would want to do this? Who would want to hurt my wife, man?”

“Stone,” I started, trying, as I always had, to comfort my best friend when he needed me. “We will figure this out. Your only job right now is to keep Penelope safe. That’s it. I will get Daphne back and then we will find the fucks behind this and rain down hell on every single one of them.

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