Page 39 of When He Fights
“Uh, huh.”From Gray as he lounged in a chair near the couch.“This would be the guy who tased you?And then you shoved him on his ass?George Taylor?”
“He’s lucky I didn’t knock him out cold.I warned him that the taser wouldn’t stop me.That it would just piss me off.”It had.Then he’d run as fast as he could into the aquarium.He’d been desperate to find Ana.“George was the one doing all the yelling and screaming.”George had kept yelling for Kane to stop.He hadn’t.
Then he’d heardherscream.Her desperate cry for help.
The blood had iced in his veins.
“Turner is maintaining that he was trying to calm down Ana.De-escalate the situation.”Gray rubbed a hand along his jaw.“He says she wasn’t handling their breakup well.”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake!”Kane erupted.
Ana rolled her eyes.“He’s lying his butt off.Hetoldme that he’d been getting close to me for the last few months because he was following orders.”She grabbed one of the pillows on the couch.Ana pulled it toward her, hugging it tightly to her chest as if the soft pillow could be some kind of shield.“And exactly how does that fit with the timeline of Logan’s escape?Because you acted as if Loganjustfound me, but what Turner said makes it seem like my current location and identity have been known for a long time.”
Yes, absolutely, it did.
“Working on that,” Gray muttered.He did not look pleased.“Not like this will be the first time a bad actor got intel at the Bureau.I’m getting real tired of this shit.”
“I’m not exactly thrilled with it, either,” she huffed.
Gray pointed at her.“You told your friend Zuri that your ex was a hitman.Just announced it right in front of her and the guard.”
“Yes, well.”She grimaced.“Apparently, all the bad guys know where I am, and I had just almost been murdered so I didn’t see the need to lie to her right then and there.She’s my friend.I don’t like lying to friends.”Ana kept clutching the pillow.“If Logan is coming after me—if he’s sending people after me—why not just go back to being Anastasia Patrick once again?The fake name isn’t doing much for me in terms of protection.”
No, it wasn’t.
Gray’s sharp stare shifted to Kane.“You went swimming with the sharks, huh?”
He rolled one shoulder.“I had to get the creep away from Ana.When I tackled him, we were near the edge of the observation platform.We went over.”
“You know the guy couldn’t swim, right?”
He’d figured that out the minute the dude started thrashing left and right and sinking to the bottom of the massive tank.“He lives at the beach.He should really learn how to do that necessary task, don’t you think?Especially, if he’s gonna be threatening to toss people into tanks.”
“Did you try to drown him?”Gray’s question was mild.
“If I’d tried, he would be dead.The guy slipped out of my grip.”Another roll of one shoulder.“I got him out, didn’t I?”
“He’s saying you tried to drown him.That you’re a jealous lover who was bent on killing him.”
Killing him wouldn’t be the worst plan.
“Kane,” Gray snapped, as if reading his mind.
“He’s got good stories, I’ll give him that.”
“Yeah, well, he’s also gonna be a pain in my ass.Because I’m betting he’ll be out on bond soon.”A heaving sigh from Gray.“He’s also spouting off about you assaulting him at a bar recently.I wondered why the guy didn’t press charges at the time.”
“He ran away as fast as he could from the bar.”From me.
“I think he was making plans,” Gray corrected.“Maybe laying ground work to set up you as a fall guy.”
Ana sucked in a sharp breath.“He did say—Turner told me that after I was dead, he’d tell the cops he saw Kane hanging out around the building.”
That sneaky sonofabitch.“I should have let him keep swimming with the sharks.”
“Hecan’tswim,” Gray reminded him.
Kane just stared at Gray.
