Page 50 of Love Me Carefully
“We’re going home. ” Grabbing her boots, he slipped them on her feet.
“But how?” She stood still, staring at him in obvious disbelief.
He swelled with pride as she looked to him for the answers. He wanted to kiss her pouty lips, but knew that would only delay their departure. “I got the door open.” He tweaked her nose instead.
A broad smile spread across her lips, and those sexy eyes lit up with pleasure. “You did? When?”
He almost ran to the steps but stopped short at the sight of two men, guns in hand, coming down the stairs. Leah bumped into his back and gasped when she saw them.
“It’s okay, baby. Just stay behind me,” Terrell instructed her.
“Hold it! FBI!” the first man to stop at the bottom of the stairs yelled.
“FBI!” the man immediately behind him echoed.
Terrell stood perfectly still, not sure if these guys really were FBI or some of Donald’s men.
“Who the hell are you?” One of the men yelled at them. “How did you get in here?”
“I…I’m Terrell Pierce and this is Leah Graham.” He kept Leah shielded by his own body, but knew they had seen her because he’d felt her head peeping around him. “We were abducted and locked down here yesterday.”
“Abducted?” The agent near the stairs moved closer to Terrell. “Put your hands up, both of you,” he ordered.
Terrell and Leah put their hands up in the air.
“I’m going to ask you again, how did you get here?” Jeffery still had his gun aimed directly at them. The name Pierce hadn’t been lost on him, and he wondered about the man’s true involvement in this case.
Leah rolled her eyes and Terrell spoke.
“Just like I said before, we were abducted by Donald Douglas and his big goon friend. They drugged us and left us here early yesterday morning.”
“Why would they do that?” Jeffery eyed them suspiciously. Gaining access to Donald’s house had led him to the two people who’d most likely been the last to see him. There was definitely something above and beyond their operation going on here, and these two were going to help him figure out what.
