Page 10 of Faith
“I missed you, too.”
He held her until her body relaxed against his and his reaction to holding her couldn’t be withheld. He pushed her away from his body, not wanting to scare her with the erection he couldn’t stop. She was still Montgomery’s little sister. And he was supposed to be protecting her, not imagining what was beneath the clothes he gave her to borrow.
“We’ll get you some new clothes tomorrow. Whatever you want. And anything else. Food, a car? A new place? You can stay here, of course. Or with Mont. Whatever you want. Money is no object. We’ll take care of you, Nina. Always.”
She nodded. “I know you will. For tonight, I just want to enjoy being here with you.”
Zeke drew a breath and nodded. There was nothing that sounded better than that.
Gwendolyn Lennox glaredat the man who interrupted her sleep. She didn’t like being woken up, but it was even worse when the man shared his news.
“What the fuck do you mean, she’s gone? Where the hell is she?”
“I don’t know, ma’am. She went into the convenience store, and she never came back out.”
“Did you go in and look for her?”
“Yeah. Of course. But she wasn’t there.”
The fucking idiot acted like Gwendolyn was asking stupid questions. He needed to learn a lesson.
Gwendolyn grabbed the gun from Fernando’s holster and pointed it at the fucking driver who lost Nina.
The man’s face changed then. “I asked the clerk. I looked for her. She must have snuck out the back door.”
“Then fucking find her. She couldn’t have gone far.”
“Unless she had someone pick her up,” the asshole dared to say.
“And how would she have arranged that? Did she call someone?”
“No. Not that I know of.”
“Then who would have picked her up? Was there another car there?”
The driver shook his head, then stopped. “Someone drove by. Slow, like they were looking for something. Went past, so I didn’t think anything of it.”
“Well, maybe you should have. I let Nina go there because they don’t have cameras. It was supposed to keep her safe. Keep anyone from seeing her who wasn’t supposed to.”
“Who would be looking for her?” the driver asked, turning up his nose.
Gwendolyn raised an eyebrow. “Right now, I am. My sister is gone, and you’re the one who let her get away.”
“I didn’t realize she was your sister. I’ll go?—”
Gwendolyn pulled the trigger before the man could finish his sentence. She smiled at the moment of awareness on his face before he collapsed into a puddle of his own brains.
“Huh, so he did have a fucking brain,” Gwendolyn snarled, glaring at the corpse. “Get someone to clean this up. Then find Nina.”
“What if she went back?” Fernando asked.
Gwendolyn glared at him. She couldn’t think about Nina going back to her family. She spent years training her, raisingher, caring for her. Gwendolyn was Nina’s family, not the brother who let her walk away.
“She wouldn’t. But check just in case.”
Fernando nodded, then left the room.
Gwendolyn looked down at the mess of a man who let her favorite pet get away. Nina didn’t run. She knew better.
