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“He’s forgetting the part where he almost killed Dale,” Jack interjected.
“You almost killed Dale? Why?”
“With his bare hands,” Jack added. “It pained me to stop him but Rhode called in a possible location where you were being held. I figure you’d appreciate a rescue from your man and not having him behind bars for homicide.”
I didn’t bother repeating my question.
The why didn’t matter—not right then. That was a question for another day.
“And the women at the party?”
“They’re all being taken care of, even the one who drugged you.”
Clearly, Wilson didn’t like that. And honestly, if I’d been rescued before seeing her again I wouldn’t have cared what happened to her. That might make me a horrible person but her actions sent my life spiraling to hell. But after seeing the fear and remorse in her eyes I didn’t have it in me to hold a grudge.
“She said Louis had something of hers.”
“She has a daughter,” Jack told me. “The little girl is safe, but she thought Louis had taken her, too, so that’s why she drugged you for him.”
Now I felt like a bitch for ever being mad at her. Any mother would do anything to save their child.
I sighed and snuggled closer to Wilson.
“Is this going to mean on top of everything else I’m now going to have to convince you none of this was your fault and you cannot feel guilt for something you didn’t do?”
Without hesitation he shocked the shit out of me and said, “No.”
“No?”
“There is nothing you can say that will ever convince me that Louis taking you wasn’t my fault.”
Here we go again.
“Well, too fucking bad for you. There’s nothing you can say that will ever convince me that it was your fault Louis kidnapped me. So we’re at a stalemate. Agreeing to disagree. I told you, Wilson, I will fight you. Perhaps you misunderstood. What I meant was, I will fight you. You can push me away, and I won’t let you. You can try your shock and awe, and it will bounce off me. You can tell me a thousand times you’re going to fail me but I won’t believe you. Me sitting on your lap right this very second is proof you will never let me down. I love you, Wilson, and I’m not letting you go.”
Wilson’s hand hooked me around the back of the neck. He pulled my cheek off his chest and stared at me.
“Princess,” he groaned.
“You can’t kiss me,” I told him. “I haven’t brushed my teeth in—”
Apparently, my man didn’t care the inside of my mouth hadn’t seen toothpaste in four days.
And when his tongue swept mine, neither did I.
TWENTY-NINE
Two weeks later, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Takeback office
“So that’s it?” Reese inquired. “IA’s done?”
Detective Jet Brasco frowned.
“Circumstances being what they are, no charges are being filed,” Brasco reiterated. “Blake and Johnson have been terminated, Mealer quit months ago, all three of them cooperated, and Phillips is dead. IA has sealed the investigation.”
All four men had been caught up in one of Trevor Lawrence’s—better known as Zeus, the dead president of the Horsemen—blackmail schemes. Zeus had this bright idea to send underage girls with fake IDs into bars to seduce police officers and have the girl record the encounters. Zeus could then use the recordings to blackmail the cops. Unfortunately, Zeus’s fucked-up plan had worked. The girls didn’t look underage, they were in bars drinking, and the unsuspecting officers took the bait, resulting in one of the girls taking her life and one of those cops kidnapped Zeus’s sister, Jane, for ransom.
