Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 146417 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 732(@200wpm)___ 586(@250wpm)___ 488(@300wpm)
She was worth roughly sixty million. That was a lot of attraction for some men.
“I have my own money.” It was the first time he’d looked anything but perfectly satisfied.
She’d made a direct hit. “But nothing like mine.”
“No. I had a small trust that my father managed to not lose when he blew every bit of our family money.” Levi sat up a bit straighter. “When I’m married to the heir to the Solomon fortune, with ties that go across the globe, I’ll be back to my proper place. I’ll show my father that I’m better than him when I bring our family back to some sort of honor. Or maybe I’ll crush him like he tried to crush me. I don’t know. I haven’t decided yet.”
He was an angry child with far too much power. She needed to find a way out or she would become another toy he broke. “You can’t possibly think you’re going to get away with this.”
“Of course I will,” he said like it was a foregone conclusion, like the game was already over. “I’m back in the director’s good graces. The data we recovered from Paris ensured that. It’s the gift that keeps right on giving. Have you ever heard of a company called Fitzgerald Inc?”
Everyone had heard of them. “They’re a multinational, one of those mega corporations with their fingers in every pie from agricultural to Hollywood.”
“Including a majority share in a small pharmaceutical company that worked with Kronberg, and more specifically funded Hope McDonald in a direct fashion.”
She wasn’t sure where he was going with this. “I suspect a lot of companies did that.”
“Ah, but did the daughter of a presidential candidate sit on the board of one of those companies? Did she sign off on backroom plans to use McDonald’s research?”
Levi Green had always been the luckiest fucker in the history of time. “You’re planning an October surprise?”
“No, though I assure you we thought about it,” he admitted. “Look, the last thing we need is another Zack Hayes. We’ve had eight years where we couldn’t work the way we need to because it would offend the president’s delicate sensibilities.”
She rolled her eyes. “You mean he took human and civil rights seriously. That must have been very tough on you.”
He completely ignored her and continued on. “Since Hayes can’t run again, we’re left with two candidates. One of them is reasonable and the other is all Captain America huggy. Now we have a way to force the Captain America guy to bow out. Or we’ll arrest his daughter and bring down his whole family. He’ll claim he can’t handle the pressure or some shit and our guy will breeze in.”
Then Levi Green would be in power. And she would be completely fucked.
“Sir, I believe we have a tail,” a deep voice said over the intercom.
Levi sat up and turned. “How long have they been on us?”
“That Benz has been behind us for ten minutes. They caught up when we hit the M25,” the man said. “I didn’t think anything of it until they followed us off. There’s nothing but the airfield going this way. It’s why we selected this spot. No one should be following us. We’re the only departure for hours.”
Her heart rate ticked up and she strained to see the vehicle again. That Benz looked an awful lot like Damon’s.
“Lose him,” Levi commanded. “Or better yet, get us to the airfield as fast as you can. If he wants to follow me in, I’ll shoot the fucker, and I won’t miss this time.”
Levi reached to his side, pulling the SIG Sauer out of its place in the shoulder holster he wore.
It was time to cause some chaos. If she could break free, she was running for that car the minute she could. They would have to kill her before they would get her body on that plane. He was about to find out she wasn’t going gently into that medicated night.
She brought her hands up over her head.
“Don’t do it, Solo,” Levi said between clenched teeth.
She brought her hands down with all the force she could muster and dragged them apart, splitting the plastic of the zip ties. He really should have used cuffs.
Adrenaline started to pour through her system as she readied for the fight of her life.
That was the moment she heard the shot and felt the limo careen out of control. Levi cursed as the limo started to roll. She held on and prepared to make her escape.
* * * *
Ezra’s heart was in his throat as he punched the gas. The limo had turned off the M25 exactly where Nick said it would. They’d been following the fucking douchebag limo for the last half hour, and every single mile had been nauseating.
What had Levi already done to her? Had he drugged her to make sure she couldn’t fight back?