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“I’ll kill you first,” Nick growled.
“You need to stop him from speaking to me like that,” Davy said, his voice high-pitched and panicky now.“I’m in control here!”
Billy sent him a glare.“What do you want us to do?”
“I will give you the location and time for the exchange.”
“I want to speak to her,” Nick said, ignoring the anger his cousin directed his way.“How do we know he’s even got her?”
There was silence on the phone, and he thought Davy had gone.
“Nick?”
“Poppy.”Nick got out of his seat hearing her voice.“Are you all right?”
“Yes—”
“You’ve spoken to her, so now you listen to me.”Davy’s voice came back on the line.
“Davy,” Nick said.
“What?”
“I will not rest until you are dead if you touch one hair on her head.”
He cut the call.
Chapter30
Nick stared at the phone in his cousin’s hand.Everything inside him went cold.Ice-cold.Cold enough that surely his internal organs would freeze and stop working.
“He will not hurt her,” he gritted out.“Not Poppy.”
“No one is hurting her,” Billy said
“No one,” his siblings all vowed together
“I want to speak to him, Denton,” Nick said.
Billy shook his head.A tap on the door had him saying, “Enter.”
A large bald man walked in.His stomach hung over his trousers, which were a faded brown, almost beige.The cuffs of his long-sleeved white shirt were rolled up to show a black tattoo of a panther.His nose leaned to the right and looked like it had seen a fist a time or two.
“Chief Benowitz, these are my cousins, Nick, Sam, Gracie, Thomas, and Emma,” Billy said.“Nick is Poppy Sylvester’s partner.”
“I’m sorry your girl is going through this, but we’ll get her back,” the man said, shaking Nick’s hand.
He wanted to believe him, but he knew what Davy was capable of.He was a cunning bastard who had been stalking Poppy for years as if she were prey.
“Nick’s phone just rang, and it was Davy.He wants to exchange Poppy for Denton,” Billy said.“There were threats made, and Davy cut the call.”
“He’ll call back,” Chief Benowitz said, looking at Nick, who was now pacing the small room.“Malcolm Davy flew into town four hours after we arrested Denton trying to leave.He used the alias Stephen Taylor.We tracked him through airport footage,” Chief Benowitz said in a slow voice Nick was sure had soothed a few frayed nerves in his time.It was doing nothing for him.
“Let me talk to him,” Nick said.
Chief Benowitz gave him a hard look.“I’d say that if it were my woman missing, too, but I’m telling you it’s not going to happen, Nick.I hope you don’t mind me calling you that.The reason is that you’re not trained to deal with psychopaths like Denton.Second to that is I want him alive, as he’s the only way we’re getting to Davy.If you talk to him, there is every chance he won’t be.”He raised a hand as Nick opened his mouth.“You can stand with your cousin in the room next door.It has two-way mirrors.”
“I want to look for her,” Nick growled.
