Wanted Protector: A Pregnancy Enemies-to-Lovers Romance by Lacey Kendrick

Author:Lacey Kendrick [Kendrick, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

ARES

“There’s nothing on the man, Boss. He’s disappeared into thin air again,” Ashton told me as we left the office and started heading back towards my penthouse.

Beefing up the security happened fast with the addition of Liz to the family. I did everything to make sure that we had the matter of security settled early on so she could settle in comfortably now that she was living in the penthouse with me.

There was still no message from the mafia, but I knew they were watching me—watching us—but there was nothing to be done about that. The worrying part though, was the fact that I could not find where my old boss was. It was like he disappeared when he wanted to, and I did not know how that was possible.

I waved a hand. “There’s nothing that we can do about it, then. We can’t find him, and so we’ll leave him alone and focus on things that we can actually change.”

We got to the elevators and took the lift down.

“Speaking of things that we can actually change, you do remember the multibillion-dollar deal that we should be working on closing with Adams’ Energy, right? And do you remember your part in the deal?” Ashton asked.

I glared at him and then looked away. I could not get mad at him for simply doing his job, but . . . “You hound me about that every single day. How could I possibly have forgotten?”

He shrugged. “You don’t look like someone who has remembered. Granted, you’re dealing with this mafia business and there’s a woman who has your child. All those things would distract anyone. Then again, this is still the biggest deal anywhere on the land. It’s a deal that can move you to legendary heights. I’d have thought you’d be more interested in finishing it up than you are.”

The elevator doors dinged open, saving me from answering the question. I knew he was right, though. There was no way that I would have taken this much time to close this deal a year ago—or even a few months ago—and the only difference between those times and now was a certain Liz Anderson.

We walked out of the elevators, and I nodded to all the greetings as we walked to the car. Bradley appeared at the doors with two other security men to lead me inside.

“Boss, are you going to answer?” Ashton asked, walking just behind me.

“I don’t know what you want me to say, Ashton. I don’t know.” I ran a hand through my hair. “We know what she wants out of this deal outside of the money, but maybe having sex with Jennifer Adams just to complete a deal has no sort of pull for me,” I answered as I got into the car and scooted over for him to get in.

“I’m sorry, what?” He had his eyebrows up to his forehead and when I shrugged, he threw his hands up. “She’s Jennifer Adams! I can’t imagine a more desirable

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