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Sarah startled.“I told her to go to the apartment.”
Devon looked at her.His eyes softened, making him appear younger yet without the connection she felt like something precious had been ripped away from her.
She followed Devon closely as they sprinted across the compound and into the waiting SUV’s.The road blurred beside them as she tried to reconcile the loss she felt.Her hand squeezed Devon’s.He responded by pulling it to his lips and kissing it lightly while looking her in the eyes.
He was doing everything right, yet her uneasiness continued to grow.She needed something, but she couldn’t ascertain what it was.
A short time later, they were up the stairs to her apartment, standing outside her door before Hunter put his arm across Devon’s chest barring him from entering.“I need to go in with Sarah alone for a moment.”
Devon growled.Looking at the arm across his chest.
Hunter pulled back.“I know I’m asking a lot.I can’t explain it.I need to secure Racheal before any males are around her.”
Devon’s eyes squinted.“Talen and I are mated.Your cat shouldn’t perceive us as a threat.”
Hunter’s eyes flashed amber.“Don’t you think I fucking know that!”He snapped before shuddering as he took a deep breath.“I’m sorry.I have no right to ask you to trust me with your mate.”
Devon ran his hand through his hair.“I trust you.I also trust her, but I want her armed.We’ll wait outside till you call us to enter.”
Hunter handed Sarah a Glock, turning without a word and opening the door.
Sarah felt the pain skitter across her stomach the moment her hand left Devon’s.She focused on her oak coffee table, scanning the contents of the room, looking for anything out of place.Looking for Racheal.Everything was where it should be.As Sarah had suspected.She was gone.
CHAPTER14
Sarah called out without hope.“Racheal you here?”
Hunter stepped out of Sarah’s bedroom.“She was here, but she’s gone now.FUCK.”He scratched the back of his neck roughly.His fight to get himself under control evident.She didn’t know what was happening with Hunter only that it couldn’t be good.
Devon entered with Talen and Cade trailing behind.He went to her immediately.His arm slid around her, causing the gnawing pain to subside to a dull ache.Something was very wrong with her.She had the overwhelming urge to rip Devon’s clothes from his body.Images of her taking him into her mouth, riding him, rubbing herself against him flashed through her mind.She didn’t want to tell Devon in front of his family what was happening.“Can we go?I don’t want to be here.”
Devon looked at her with compassion.“I understand you not wanting to be here with Gerald’s stuff everywhere, but we need to know what you sent Racheal here for.”Of course, he thought her apprehension was related to Gerald.
She tried to control her cat’s anxiousness.Sarah ran her hands up and down her arms, trying to focus on the issue at hand.“My mom siphoned money from my father’s company during the last few years of her life.She told me to hide it away just in case.”
Devon looked puzzled.“Your father is a millionaire.Why would she do that?”
Sarah laughed without humor.“She said she didn’t trust him to take care of me.Go figure.”
Devon put his hand on the back of her neck, rubbing softly.He couldn’t know the firestorm he was creating, and she wasn’t in a position to tell him.
Sarah pursed her lips, licking them before continuing.“Anyway, Racheal was the only one I told about it.Back at the facility, I suggested she take flight 222.It was our code name for the money.”
“Why flight 222?”
“There’s two hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars,” she said sheepishly.
“WHAT.”Hunter barked.
Sarah recoiled.“She wasn’t safe.I wanted her away from Kallan.”She shuddered.“I guess my mother is inadvertently responsible for my father’s financial difficulties.”
Talen shook his head.“While sizeable, that amount shouldn’t make a difference to a company the size of Marksmen Enterprises.Especially taken over years.”
Hunter growled.It was a low menacing sound.
Devon straitened.“What is it?”
Hunter’s eyes flashed.“She is out there with a ton of cash.She will be impossible to track.”He swore under his breath.