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But one day, she will. She doesn’t have to say that. It’s true. She will but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go all those deep dark places with her. “Some things don’t matter. Especially when someone comes along and shows them that they don’t matter.”
“I don’t know what that means.”
“It means I’m different with you, baby, and that’s a good thing.” I pull her hand between us and kiss it. “Go to the bathroom. We’ll talk later when we’re finally alone. I’ll be outside waiting for you.” I reach for the door and she catches my arm.
“What about my mother? Where will she go tonight?”
“She can go home or she can come to my place. What will she want? What doyouwant?”
“She won’t go to your place. She’s very independent, but I’m worried about the police cornering her.”
“Reese will handle that and I’m sure he’ll schedule an interview for her as he did for us. But if Reese feels she should stay with us, we’ll force the issue.”
Her eyes soften. “Thank you, Gabe.”
“You don’t have to thank me. We’re—”
Her lips are pressed to my lips, and I don’t need further invitation. I cup her head and kiss the hell out of her, but the thing is, she kisses the hell out of me, too. I am instantly hot and hard, and it’s all I can do not to turn her to the sink, pull up her skirt and find my way inside her, but now is not the time nor the place.
“You, woman, are definitely trying to make me fall,” I say, releasing her and exiting the bathroom to find Reid sitting on the stairs a few feet away, waiting on me.
“How’s Cat?” I ask, claiming the step next to him.
“She’s Cat. Ready to save the world and us. On another note. I heard from Blake. He doesn’t see anything electronically that looks like trouble for either of us.”
“That’s good news.” Only he’s scowling. “What?”
“There’s an account in Abbie’s name that, while inactive now, had a large sum of money in it at one point.”
“The point? Aside from the fact that she was married to a billionaire.”
“It has some funny transactions that might be money laundering,” he says.
“Holy fuck.” I scrub my jaw and lower my voice. “Can Blake make this go away?”
“He already did, but there’s more. There’s a connection between that account and—”
“Our father,” I say, instantly realizing where this is going.
Reid gives a sharp nod. “Yes. Our father. “
“This explains so damn much. He served her a phony lawsuit under our company. I called his bluff, but clearly, he’s motivated to scare her away from me. Because this all runs too close to home, his home, for his comfort.” I grimace. “I wonder if Abbie will love me or hate me when she finds out that I killed my own damn father.”
“I could make it easy on you,” Reid offers. “I could do it for you.”
Only he won’t. He has a wife to think about. I, on the other hand, have Abbie to save. I’m not sure that’s going to work out so well for my father.
Chapter sixty-two
Gabe
Reid and I are still sitting on the stairwell of Cat and Reese’s apartment when Carrie rounds the corner. “What’s going on with the Maxwell brothers?”
“Just talking about our dark side,” Reid replies, the dark side being our father.
Abbie exits the bathroom at the same time and manages to hear what was said. “Dark side? Oh do tell.”
I stand up and before I can reply, Carrie answers for us. “That would be their father, the monster, who they fantasize about slaying. As do I. He tried to destroy me and my father.”
