The Temptation of Four by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096369
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2019-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Jemma

On our way out of the suite, I glanced toward the purse John had left on the dining table. “Can you grab that for me, Bash?”

He caught the leather strap without a word. Garrett watched him with particular attention to the pistol still poised in my hitman’s grasp.

Bash gave the detective inspector a particularly unfriendly glower. “Let’s get on with getting that key.”

He held the gun close to his side as we crossed the hall, but no one came out to notice us anyway. My mind flashed back to the massacre I’d pictured in Sherlock’s bedroom, and my stomach turned.

If I’d let Bash blow the three of them away, the scene might not have looked so different from the gory hallucination Bog had forced into my head back in London.

Depending on how well the trio played along, my plans might have just become ten times more complicated. I couldn’t say I regretted the choice I’d made, though. I was a liar and a criminal, but I wasn’t a monster. A person had to have some standards.

Garrett’s room was a much simpler affair than Sherlock and John’s suite: a bed, an armchair, and a dresser that held a small flat screen TV. The accordion blind was pulled down over the window.

He punched a code into the safe in the closet and retrieved a small key. His thumb slid over the inside of my wrist as he moved to unlock the handcuffs, and a shiver traveled up my arm that wasn’t entirely unpleasant. I might have suggested he leave the cuffs on a little longer for the conversation we were about to have if I hadn’t known there was no way Bash would leave me like that.

The cuffs clicked free. I pulled my arms around in front of me and rubbed the reddened skin. Garrett’s mouth slanted in a way that looked vaguely repentant and vaguely disgruntled by that repentance.

“It’s all right,” I told him. “You did what you had to do.”

Bash snorted. “And he can stew about it while you get your bearings again.”

He set a protective hand on my upper arm, but I clasped it and eased it away. “I think I should stay and talk with Garrett a bit,” I said, holding Bash’s gaze. “We have some unfinished business. I’m all right now. You can wait downstairs for me if you want.”

Bash frowned. “Mori…” He didn’t quite want to overtly argue with me, but he didn’t want to accept the suggestion either.

I turned to Garrett. “Should I be worried for my life or safety in your presence?”

The slant of his mouth shifted into half a smile, even if it was a tight one. “Don’t reveal that you’re actually a child murderer after all, and I think we’ll make it through one conversation unscathed.”

Bash exhaled roughly, but he bobbed his head to me and handed me my purse. “You know what you’re doing,” he said, managing to sound as if he really did mean that without any I hope tacked in front.

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