Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
Daisy’s dad, Liam O’Donnell, was considered the deep thinker of McKay-Taggart. Uncle Li had been her mom’s partner for years, and they now handled the trickiest of cases, the ones that involved some kind of mystery because between the two of them, there wasn’t one they couldn’t solve. Likely over a burger and some beer. “I need time here, Dais. Please tell everyone I’m fine. I can handle some vegan meals. Lacey is actually good at them.” It was the first time talking to her friends, and she had to hope they would be honest with her. “Can you tell me how Landon is doing? Does he hate me?”
“Oh, he was in the doghouse for a while, but then he helped Harlow Dawson kill a bunch of what he called criminal douchebags, and now Big Tag likes him again,” Daisy promised. “Nate said Landon is fine, though he is currently taking what he called the don’t-lose-the-girl course. We’re all helping out. Every couple of days he’s supposed to watch one of us, and we’re supposed to get away from him. I tried climbing out of my dad’s second story office and managed to break one of the limbs on the big oak, but Landon totally caught me.”
“Uncle Li is paying for his chiropractor because he didn’t really catch her, more like she landed on him, but Big Tag gave him a pass,” Bri explained. “I’m supposed to try to escape from The Hideout on Saturday. I’m going to have Marley Brighton distract him with her boobs.”
She missed them. Missed the club they all belonged to.
Missed sitting in the lounge with Zach and pretending everything was perfect. It had felt perfect.
But she was starting to wonder what had been perfect about it. Had it been having her friends around her? Being in a place she loved? Not knowing exactly who Zach was?
Or had it felt perfect because Zach was the person she was supposed to be with, and damn all his problems.
“That sounds like fun,” she said, shooing the chicken away again and easing out of the stall. She moved on to the sweet old race horse with the gimpy leg who loved treats and wandering around the fields. She pulled the carrot out of her pocket and offered it up. “Please tell him how sorry I am.”
“You can tell him yourself when you come home,” Bri promised. “Now let’s talk because since you’re gone, Kala is letting her sisters and her mom handle the whole wedding, and she said she didn’t care what her wedding dress was like.”
Oh, no. This was a drama that could kill the planet. “Kenzie and Tash will put her in something froufrou, and Kala will run. I have to fix this.”
She hung up and immediately called her cousin.
“Tell me where you are. I told Zach I would keep him in the loop. I did not tell him he could kidnap my cousin.”
Kala was smart, but the last time Devi checked her cousin wasn’t psychic. “How did you know it was me?”
“Like I don’t already have that programmed in. Zach did a good job, but I have smarty pants on my team. The number changes, but Lou’s figured out how to ID it,” Kala said in her grumpy fashion. “She hasn’t figured out how to locate it, but she will. I’ll be on your doorstep in a couple of days, and Zach and I are going to talk.”
“He didn’t kidnap me. I mean he sort of did, but it’s come to my attention that I am not entirely innocent in all of this, and I suck sometimes. So I’m taking a time out. Trust me. I’m not under lock and key. I’m currently in a barn.”
There was a gasp over the line. “He’s keeping you in a barn? I thought at least he would be banging you in some luxury hotel.”
She was confused. “I thought you didn’t want him to kidnap me. Now you’re mad he isn’t banging me?”
Kala sighed. “I just thought at least you two could work a couple of things out because you, my cousin, have been brutally bitchy since he left. A couple of good orgasms and maybe you’re happier.”
She wished her cousin was wrong. “I did not call to talk about my lack of a love life, nor do I want to discuss why I won’t sleep with a man who lied to me. I called to warn you.”
“Shit.” Kala’s voice went low. “He’s in trouble, isn’t he? Is it that woman he’s working with? He won’t give me any info on her, so I think she’s shady as fuck. Like I have a feeling about her.”
Kala kind of had that feeling about almost everyone. “Lacey is fine. You don’t have to worry about her.”
“Her name is Lacey?” Kala asked, and then she sounded further away like she was holding the phone out. “Lou, we need to find a chick named Lacey. Probably not her real name.”