Page 107 of Between Never and Forever

When it came to her, I would. “I can and I will, heartbreaker. Want me to call Mitchell and see if he wants to sue you when you’re about to marry Dex Hardy? Or can you make that call yourself?”

“Let’s just slow down—”

“You have a weekend off in two more weeks. We’ll go then.” I started tapping away on my phone.

“You can’t seriously think we’re going back to Illinois where everyone hates—”

“Me?” I smiled. “All the more reason to marry my sweetheart. Give them something to really gossip about. Till then, you stay here, Kee. No going out where it’s unsafe.”

“So you just want me to wait around and twiddle my thumbs?”

“You’re performing. Go to the casino. Spend some money.” There was plenty to do. “Eat at the restaurants. Just stay within the Black Diamond. Your friends are here. We can invite people in.”

“You’re being ridiculous.”

“And you’re being impatient and reckless. What’s new?”

“That is new. I’m never reckless.” Her face brightened in anger now.

“Yes, but I have a feeling that’s all you want to be lately.”

She stomped off to her bedroom, and I let her go. She needed to mull over everything while I did too. I even told her I was going down to one of my offices to work because I needed to move, needed to get my head straight, needed to think beyond her in the room next to me.

I wouldn’t leave her without a security detail sitting outside our room though. Someone had targeted her, and it was very, very real. HEAT security for the resort was world class. No one should have known our room number. HEAT employees signed NDAs, we had intel on everyone in the upper levels, and my staff was briefed over and over again.

I called Dimitri to the office to sift through things. He was more of a workaholic than me, and we went through staff member after staff member, firewalls, any breaches, everything. We couldn’t find anything. A storm was brewing outside, and I stared at the lightning in the desert sky. “I’m missing shit.”

“And you hate missing anything,” Dimitri grumbled. “I get it. But we won’t figure it out tonight.”

A crack of thunder sounded, and my watch alerted me of Kee’s heart rate picking up. Storms always made me jumpy too. Las Vegas weather normally allowed me to avoid them though. I knew it was a product of what we’d been through so long ago. I hated that I even saw the fear in Dimitri’s eyes.

I pulled up my camera of her bedroom and saw her lighting candles as Dimitri grumbled about something. She was struggling to get back to her resting heart rate. Once in bed, she tossed and turned until finally her body succumbed to sleep.

Dimitri talked me into calling Declan and Dom about the stalker, and then they decided they wanted Izzy and Delilah on the call.

“We’re not figuring this out tonight,” I grumbled when they all started talking about family stuff.

“No. Let me get Dante. He’ll know what to do.” Lilah disappeared from the screen.

Then Izzy said, “I think Cade and I should just come there.”

“You want to bring the kids to Vegas?” Her husband frowned at her.

“Could be fun… Plus, you’ll watch them while I gamble.”

“Gamble for what? All that money isoursanyway.”

“Exactly.” Dimitri rolled his eyes because we all knew he considered gambling to be a bad investment.

“You guys are no fun,” Izzy said just as Delilah came back on the screen with Dante.

“I want to go there too to see Keelani in concert.” Lilah smirked at Dante. “Can we go? She mentioned in her last show she might not be performing all her songs. I want to see her before that happens.”

“Yeah, let’s go!” Izzy bounced in her chair.

“You two realize we’re talking about her stalker right now?”

“She probably has like a hundred stalkers, Dex.”