Page 69 of Kane's Bounty
“Lena, you can’t do this to me.”
She got up from the chair. “You did this to yourself, Oscar. The conversation we had yesterday was recorded. You may have thought you paid off all the right people, but most of them were working for the FBI.”
Oscar rose as if to jump across the desk. Then his face fell and he sat back down heavily.
She walked toward the door, stopped and turned. “By the way, the deal that John Porter was making with Cross Lending? It never happened. Just one of those things, the stones must have been wrong.”
“Wha…” Oscar sat with his mouth opening and closing, but no words came out.
“I’ll bet those people you were dealing with will be disappointed when they find out you had your information all wrong and they lost millions on the deal.” She continued out the door with the Lakeland brothers flanking her. Several police officers walked in behind her and she could hear them Mirandize Oscar as they made their way to the elevator.
Lena didn’t exactly feel joy, but she felt pretty good.
* * *
“This is where you live?”
She brought him to her small condo in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The quaint town was full of artsy types with galleries and shops. She could live there, do her readings and no one really thought anything about it. The main drag ran one block in from the Delaware River. Her condo was six blocks off Main Street. She liked that it was partway up a mountain and had a view of the land below. “This is where I live.”
“I thought you said New Jersey.”
“I said I was from New Jersey. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania for a couple of years.”
He walked around the living room and dining room, then through the kitchen. He touched the table, the couch and ran his hand along the blanket she kept on the back cushion. He opened cabinets in the kitchen before walking to the only bedroom. She waited for him to return to the main area. After a few minutes, he did return. “Is it important to you that we live here?”
“Is it important to you that we don’t?” she countered.
He shrugged. “It’s not going to be big enough once the baby is born.”
She couldn’t help the laugh that burst out of her mouth. “I’m not even pregnant yet.”
“You could be.” He pulled her into his arms.
“I suppose that’s true. If I’m pregnant, we will need a larger place,” she admitted. “Do you have a house?”
He nodded. “In Colorado.”
“It’s awful far away from Gran.” She thought about moving across the country from her only blood relative. A knot formed in her stomach.
“I didn’t say we had to move there, Lena. I know how you feel about your grandmother. We can keep it as a vacation home.”
“So where do you want to live then?”
He bent his head and sucked her bottom lip into his mouth. “I want to live wherever you are.”
“I like it here because it’s only an hour to see Gran in Cherry Hill, plus Philadelphia is pretty close, but I could live anywhere.”
“We don’t have to decide right now. I only need you to decide one thing today.” His face was serious and the line between his eyes deepened.
She smiled. “What’s that?”
To her utter surprise, he dropped to his knees. “Will you marry me?”
Tears were threatening to push their way out. She could feel her bottom lip trembling. “You don’t have to do this, Kane.”
“Is that a yes or a no?” He held up a small back box. “Will this sway your decision?” He opened the box and exposed the large round diamond set in platinum.
She reached out one hand and touched the sparkling stone. “When did you do this?”
