Page 51 of Bliss with a Billionaire

“Really? You’re going to knock my heroic efforts to save you?” he said with a chuckle.

She shrugged, her grim expression finally melting into a genuine smile. “I’m not a damsel in distress. I saved myself…sort of.”

“Sort of?” Ethan asked.

“Okay, I had some help.”

Alicia wrinkled her nose. “Please don’t tell me a ghost.”

“Alex called, and Ava talked me through it.”

Grant screwed up his face. “Alex called you while you were trapped in a burning building?”

“Yeah. Apparently the 9-1-1 call from my phone triggered an alert for him.” She paused as her fingertips tapped the outside of her glass. “I guess I should talk to him about that. It’s kind of weird that he’s monitoring my calls.”

“And stopping anyone from tracking you,” Grant said with a sigh. “That needs to stop, too. Max couldn’t find you or Sierra when you went rogue to find Kyle.”

“That wasn’t rogue.”

“Whatever. When you two were in danger, we couldn’t find out because the great Alex Stone decided only he should know your location because only he can be trusted with your life.”

Julia tugged her lips back in a wince. “Sorry. Anyway, thank goodness for him and Ava or I would have broken the window in the room I was trapped in and probably made things worse.”

“I guess I have to thank him…again,” Grant said with a shake of his head as the front door banged shut. “This is really becoming a habit.”

Sierra wandered into the room, scanning it. “What’s a habit?”

He stiffened as he spotted his daughter. He’d have to break the news to her about her mother’s death. He wondered how she’d take it.

Next to him, Julia must have been pondering the same thing because her posture straightened as she stared at Sierra.

“Uh, let’s let them talk, Ethan,” Alicia said, grabbing her husband’s hand and tugging him toward the foyer.

“Did someone thaw Officer Frost? She seemed almost… nice?”

“Sierra…” Grant began, rising from his seat along with Julia.

“Yeah? What happened? Why does everyone look like someone died?”

“Why don’t you sit down?”

“Oh, no, here we go again. Sierra, sit down. Sierra, I have bad news. And then no one will tell me the bad news forever. You’ll just keep staring at me.”

“I think you should sit down, too, Sierra,” Julia said with a consoling glance.

Her features turned wary as she eyed them both. “What happened? Is it Kyle? Did something happen to him?”

“No, he’s okay,” Julia answered.

She turned pale, her eyes going wide. “Oh, no. Are you leaving Daddy?”

“No,” Julia said with a shake of her head as she reached out toward Sierra. “I told you in the hospital that I’m here to stay.”

Sierra clutched her hand, tugging it closer to her chest as she breathed a sigh of relief. “Okay, so it can’t be that bad then. That’s the worst news I could get.”

Julia set her drink on the coffee table before she wrapped an arm around Sierra and led her to the couch, easing them both onto the supple leather seat.

“Look, I’m serious. If you’re not leaving Daddy, I probably won’t be upset. That’s literally the worst thing in the world that can happen.”