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A full body shiver raked over her.
“What the fuck are you doing?”Zach rasped in her ear.
She jumped and slammed the tablet shut.Or she tried to.
Besides the insane bedroom talents he’d been blessed with, Zach also possessed super-quick reflexes.He snatched the iPad from her and flipped back the cover.
Heart in her throat, she watched his face as he scanned the page.
“Who sent this to you?”he demanded, his face a mask of pure icy fury.
“I don’t know.There was no identifiable email address.Just a bunch of numbers and figures.”
He threw back the sheets and lunged out of bed.Tension gripped his body and stiffened his shoulders as he stalked naked to the dressing room, her tablet still in his hand.
“Zach?”
He came out seconds later, dressed in dark blue lounger pants.“I’ll deal with this.”
“How… Who sent it?”
“I don’t know.But I’ll find out.”He strode purposefully to the door of their suite and yanked it open.
Bethany scrambled out of bed, threw on a robe and raced after him.
Philip appeared in the doorway as she reached the living room, and she saw Zach hand him her tablet.“…source of the email.It may have been hacked.Have it checked out.”
The thickset man merely nodded, unruffled by the fact that he’d been woken in the middle of the night.
“And the LA situation needs to be escalated,” Zach added.The cold menace in his voice made the hairs on her nape quiver.
Another nod and Philip calmly shut the door behind him.
“What’s the LA situation?”Bethany blurted, unable to stop the shivers that raked her body.
He slowly turned and faced her.His face was a mask of fury and deadly control.“Karim.”
“What are you going to do?”
“He came after you.All bets are off.”
Her hand tightened over her belt.“What does that mean?In plain English, please.”
“It means he will be given one last opportunity to deal with my lawyers.Or he’ll have to deal with me.Only a handful of people have the information in that email.It’s designed to look like a newspaper article, but I’m certain it won’t be published anywhere.He’s an attorney, he knows the law.”
“So this was supposed to scare me?”
His jaw tightened.“Yes.”
Fear clambered up her gut and lodged in her chest.“What are you going to do?”
Her emotions must have alarmed him, because he paused in his pacing and came over to her.
He grabbed her waist in a tight grip and pulled her into his body.“Nothing that will jeopardize us, I promise.But he needs to know that he can’t mess with you.”
“Zach, I can take care of myself.”
“Then why are you shaking?Why do I see pain in your eyes?”His voice was husky with worry and fury and barely leashed control.