Page 86 of Dark Obsession

Her stomach tightened as one face was grimmer than the last.“What’s going on?”

Conner and Daniel looked at each other as the man standing spoke.“It’s nothing for you to worry about.”

Keira raised her chin and crossed her arms.“Does it have anything to do with me?”

The man turned to Daniel with his eyebrows raised.

Daniel nodded.“Yes, Baby, it does.”

Keira turned her eyes back to the man standing before her.“I see.So, what shouldn’t I worry about?”

Keira wanted to laugh at the men as they looked at each other in panic, but she was too angry at that moment.Now, she had men crawling out of the woodwork to protect her?

Conner pointed toward the sofa.“Come and sit down.”

Her scowl went darker, and her foot started to tap.Daniel hid his smile behind a hand.

“Conner, I’m fine standing.Now cut the crap.”

One of the men sitting cleared his throat and tried to whisper, but she heard every word.“Which one of you is with her because she’s going to be a handful, mark my words.”

The smile that crossed Keira’s face made them all nervous.“I’m no one’s—”

“She’s mine,” Daniel interrupted.

The two stared at each other in a struggle that captivated the whole room until Conner broke the tension.

“Keira, I’d like you to meet Blane, he works with me.The two on the sofa are Tom and Chris, Tom has the dark hair.”

Keira nodded at each before her gaze trapped Conner’s again.Her eyes narrowed when he stayed silent.

“We think we have something,” Daniel said as he took a step toward her.“You remember me talking about Tammy, my ex?”

Keira stiffened.“Yes.”

“I told you how dramatic she started to get at the end, and I thought she just wanted more of my attention?She had always complained that I worked too much.”

She crossed her arms over her chest.“Go on.”

“It’s possible she was actually being stalked, the same as you.”Daniel leapt for her when all the color in her face drained.

Keira swayed but held up a hand when a few of them headed toward her.“Stop.”She walked around them, ignored Daniel’s outstretched arm, and sat carefully on the edge of a chair that sat at an angle to the sofa.She took a few breaths.“What did she say?”

Blane stepped forward.“She told me it started with her things being moved, then taken.Notes in her house, feeling like she was being watched.”

Keira stayed silent for a moment.“And what was done to help her?”

Conner and Daniel looked at each other.

Daniel stepped forward.“I tried, we took the notes to the cops every time she received one.We made a list of everything taken or moved.But I feel like I let her down, too.This guy knows exactly what he’s doing.”

“How ...how, when, did it stop for her?”

“We broke up, and she moved away.She says she hasn’t had any trouble since.”

Keira stared at her hands in her lap.Her eyes came up and pierced Daniel’s.“So, why does this guy hate you?”

Daniel looked at her with pride.“We don’t know yet.”

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