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)
A jammer would do the trick. Jam the signal, and then taking out the security system would be a breeze. A good hacker could do it all from a distance so the whole team could invade and the cameras placed around the farm would pick up nothing. He might have noticed but he had other things on his mind. Arthur was gone. Lacey… He didn’t know where Lacey was.
A chill went up Zach’s spine, and he looked at Devi, his voice going low. “I need you to hide.”
A brow arched over green eyes. She mouthed the word. Where?
She wasn’t wrong. They weren’t exactly in a place with a ton of hidey holes. He moved in close to her, his mouth by her ear. “Someone is jamming the signal around the house. I need to go and find Lacey, and I need you to stay here. I think someone is downstairs. I don’t want to tip them off. I’m going to see if I can figure out who’s here. There’s a window to your right. It goes to the roof. Shimmy down the rain pipe and get to the Jeep if you can. If they catch you, know I’ll do everything in my power to get you back.”
It was raining outside and she could slip and fall and break her neck, and that was a way better case scenario than Huisman getting his hands on her.
He should never have brought her here.
Her face had gone a stark white, but she nodded and whispered back. “I don’t think I can do that with the plug.”
He grunted and kissed her. He no longer cared about the damn plug, and it was sad. A few minutes ago her keeping that plug had been important. “Be careful. I’m going to see if whoever is down there will follow me. But for now, we need him to believe we don’t know he’s there.”
“Zach, I’m not going anywhere with you.” The brat was back, and it was clear she was clinging to their role-play. Her tone was sassy even as her eyes told him she was worried. She was handling it with grace. She wasn’t falling apart. “I told you my cousin will come for me, and she will rain hell on your whole syndicate.”
He moved to the ladder. Everything looked normal down below. He might be freaking out for nothing, but his instincts were kicking in now that the lust cleared a little. Someone was here.
Fuck, it might be more than one. Huisman might have sent a team. He had before.
What had happened? What the fuck had gone wrong? He slipped his SIG into the back of his jeans. If he was alone, he would try something different, try to draw them out so he could take them down one by one, but he was panicked at the thought of having Devi fall into their hands.
Huisman would torture her.
Was it best-case scenario if he was about to be arrested? If it was Interpol or some Agency black team come to drag him back? They would leave her alone. Her name alone would protect her.
His stomach turned as he started down the ladder. His back was vulnerable. It went against his every instinct, but he did it for Devi. He forced his voice to stay in that deep dark Dom place. “If your cousin shows her face here, I’ll take her down. I promise that, dorogaya.”
His feet found the ground, and adrenaline pumped through him. He had barely turned when he felt something cool at the back of his neck.
“I’d love to see you try, asshole,” a familiar voice said.
Yep, maybe not worst-case scenario, but it was bad.
His team was here, and he had some explaining to do.
Chapter Eleven
Devi knew that voice.
She had been planning to do exactly what Zach told her to do. After she took out the plug. It turned out it kind of slipped out when she took that first step without thinking about it. She was picking it up with one of the handy towels Zach had stacked because no matter what situation she was in, a good sub never left a used butt plug sitting around. That was a D/s no-no she wasn’t going to play around with no matter how close to death she was.
Although the bad guys might slip on it. No. Ewww.
Plug stored, she was moving toward the window she would likely fall out of when she heard her cousin’s voice.
“I’d love to see you try, asshole.”
She breathed the biggest sigh of relief. “Kala!”
“Hey, Dev. I’m thinking about killing your boyfriend.” When Devi looked down Kala was dressed in all black and had a Glock to the back of Zach’s head. Kala glanced up. “He was supposed to tell me where you were. I had to find out for myself.”