Torn by A.F. Crowell

Author:A.F. Crowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romantic suspense, betrayal lies secrets and dead bodies, full disclosure has its price, her safety means everything, his deception tests her love to its core, his life put hers in jeopardy, pregnant and torn between two powerful men, she must trust him to survive, sworn to secrecy her great love must disclose the truth, the love of her life has deceived her

Chapter Twenty-one

Brody

Sitting at the large walnut desk my father had custom made, I stared at the letter that was delivered via a bike messenger thirty minutes ago.

If you want the bitch and your baby to live meet me at 10 p.m. tonight airstrip on Johns Island. $200K cash. Alone. No cops or I will perform the C-section myself as you watch.

Clearly that fucking idiot didn’t think I’d call Leila to find out if she was safe. I had no doubt the note was from the same asshole who’d tried unsuccessfully to abduct her less than a week ago. Lowlife scum, Barry “Drill” Vincent.

In the last few days I’d had a security team assembled and my investigator dig up everything they could on this piece of shit. He had an arrest record as thick as a phone book but like Teflon, nothing seemed to stick. He had a few minor convictions but nothing that amounted to more than a year in jail.

Drew had a uniformed officer stationed in front of Jaxon and Leila’s house, but that wasn’t enough. She needed someone on her twenty-four seven, so I hired a few guys to follow her when she left the house. While Jaxon had been busy with the club, I had multiple cameras secreted around the perimeter tied to alarms to notify the team when someone entered the property.

Poor Sara thought I’d gone off the deep end and Jane said that if Leila knew of my activities she’d call me a stalker. I just wanted to protect my daughter and her mother. As the father, that was my right and my duty.

Hearing her voice on the other end of the phone was such a relief. I hoped Jaxon would call if anything were to happen. He was so wrapped up in himself and his fucking assignment that he was not putting Lei and the baby first. He should have never left her alone. I wouldn’t have ever let her out of my sight if I were in his position, not with the knowledge he had on this sociopath.

I was pulled from my deep thoughts when I heard Sara hollering, “Wait, you can’t just-”

My wooden double doors flew open, revealing my best friend, Drew. Quickly, I tried to bury the letter in one of the several piles of contracts, addendums, and other legal briefs. “Drew, what’s up? Is everything okay? Oh, sorry, Sara.” I nodded. “It’s fine.”

“Hey, man, why’s my sister callin’ me freakin’ out? She seemed to think something was wrong.” Drew strolled across my office and stopped in front of the desk as I stood and walked around to meet him.

“I told her I was fine. I just called to check and might have been a little distracted,” I admitted and omitted. “I think she’s a little jumpy since the attack.”

“Yeah, I stopped by the other day and scared the shit out of her, by accident of course.” He sat down in one of the leather armchairs while I leaned on the front of my desk.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.