Page 54 of The Billionaire's Assistant

I sighed. “You have to let me take this at my pace. It’s been…it’s been a long time since I felt like this.”

“I know, dear. Please know I’m here for you.”

“I do. Thank you.”

As soon as I ended my call with Eudora, I tapped on Carter’s number.

He answered with a cheerful “good morning” which wasn’t like him at all.

“You sound disgustingly happy today.”

“I had an entire day and a full night’s sleep without being bothered by my boss. Imagine that.”

I scowled at the phone. “I’m bothering you now. Why the hell aren’t you watching Ben like I told you to?”

Carter snarled. “I’ve had someone watching him constantly.”

“And yet they didn’t know he’d been hurt?”

“What happened?”

I paced my living room as I spoke. “Mrs. Weeks just told me Ben was in pain last night. He told her he’d fallen down the stairs.”

“At work?”

“No. At his apartment after he went home the other day.”

After a pause, Carter said, “And you’re worried he’s lying. You think someone in his family hurt him.”

“Of course I’m fucking worried.”

“How badly is he hurt?” Carter’s voice remained perfectly calm. I knew that was part of what made him great at his job, but it only made me want to yell more.

“He went to work yesterday and to Eudora’s knitting circle, other than that I don’t really know anything. I told you to have a guard on him.”

“And I did. He’s not been out of sight unless he was at the office or in his apartment.”

“You should have been watching inside his apartment too.”

“That wasn’t part of the plan. My man watched him go in, but someone could have been waiting for him in his apartment. Is it possible he did fall?”

I snorted. ‘What do you think?”

Carter sighed. “Probably not.”

“You were supposed to keep him safe.”

“We were watching him to see if he was passing information to his family.”

I didn’t care what the initial objective was. “Someone in his family got to him and you weren’t there to protect him.”

“Neither were you and that’s what this is really about.”

I hated how right he was. “I told you I was worried about him. I told you he was being threatened, being pushed into this, and now he’s hurt. I want his family eliminated.”

“Miles. Take a breath.”

“I’m not going to let anyone else touch him. I’m going to keep him with me from now on.”

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