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“Marcus!” Mrs. James snapped. “Aren’t you going to defend me? This man was rude to me.”
“That’s because you’re being a selfish bitch,” another of Georgie’s brothers drawled.
Mrs. James turned to him. “August, how dare you! I’m still your mother and you will not swear at me like that.” Her arm came back and she slapped him.
Holy. Shit.
August just stared down at her passively, which made Ed wonder if it was the first time she’d slapped him.
“I could arrest her for that if you like,” Ed said calmly.
The bitch gasped. If she thought he wouldn’t, then she needed to think again because he would love nothing more.
“Not worth the paperwork,” August told him.
“I think it’s time you left,” the man to her right said. “You’re not helping, Mother.”
“I have every right to be here, Sebastian,” she told him haughtily. “I’m going to need to get hold of our PR firm, in case the press gets wind of this. It could be detrimental to the firm’s shares.”
“I will handle all of that,” Sebastian said coldly.
“Well, we need to hire people to find her. It’s obvious this incompetent sheriff can’t find her. He couldn’t even keep her safe.”
Ed just glared at her, although he felt the words hit him in the gut. He hadn’t kept her safe. Any of them safe.
“I can assure you that the full force of the Wishingbone sheriff’s department is behind this. And we’re being aided by Jensen Security International.”
“You are?” Marcus asked, looking surprised.
“One of the missing women has ties to JSI.”
“They’re good,” Marcus told his brothers. “I’ll add my guys, we’ll find her.”
“Mother, you should go back to the motel,” Sebastian told her. “Spencer will take you.”
The guy who was obviously Spencer glared at his brother.
“I will not. I will not be silenced or ignored. I demand to know what’s going on. And I can assure you, sheriff, that if my daughter isn’t found, heads will roll.”
“You don’t need to threaten me. If we don’t find her then my life is over anyway. She means everything to me.”
“You seriously want to marry her?” August asked. His cheek was pink from where that bitch had slapped him.
“That won’t be happening. She won’t marry someone like you. Georgina knows how important the James name is.”
“Oh, shut up, Mother,” Spencer said disgustedly. “Nobody cares about upholding the James name except you. And we’re sick of your put-downs and criticisms. Especially when it comes to squirt. She, out of all of us, deserves to be happy. And if he makes her happy, I’m going to welcome him with open arms.”
Her mother’s mouth dropped open and she looked around the room as though waiting for one of them to stand up for her. Nobody said a thing.
“I can tell when I’m not wanted.” She huffed, turning away. “Evan, take me to the airport.”
The biggest of the guys, who hadn’t yet spoken, turned to his mother. “No.”
“Excuse me?”
“Not wasting time taking you. Need to find squirt.”
“Sometimes I believe it was a mistake even having that girl, she’s given me nothing by problems since the moment she was born.”
