The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 22
“f**k, f**k, f**k,” she slapped the dash of Amelia’s car as they drove away from Cam and Portia.
“Isabella, what is your problem?” Amelia asked. “You just beat someone in a stupid street fight and impressed your arch nemesis. Also, your boyfriend will have an erection for weeks.”
“He wasn’t supposed to find out I can fight, and I don’t care if I impressed Portia.”
rate. It’s not a secret, is it?”
dward and Clara in Karate.
thirty seconds, but she’d also disarmed him and disassembled his firearm in moments. It was going to cause far more questions than answers for him and likely make him dig into her much more than he may have already.
.
”
ch you self-defence?”
t from the family, my shrink and Sabine, nobody knows.
auma?”
ver found out. I asked her to keep my past private.”
ree?”
must be,” she grappled for the word, “not crazy. I asked her to make sure if I were going to be part of the upper management team, she would have to fix it because I’m not doing a department of defense psych eval.”
zy?”
very least scrutinized. Clara has a shrink who routinely assesses me as part of my work, b
w it affects your work life. Are you okay? Does it impact your wor
ly? I go to counselling still. I mean, I was grabbed off the streets, shoved into a
er then and groaned as she saw tears sliding down Amelia’s cheeks. “Oh Amelia, st
had some issues because you have Casper, but I guess, I always think of you as strong
ce? I smashed it. Dickhead had a nerve to hold a gun to me.”
ma.”
’ll tell her you took a freebie client on the street where I’ve been mugged.”
ve you more. Our little secret?”
ring Cam Torres had witnessed her beating up a mugger. “What am I going to do? He’s going to dig so much deeper into my background. I can’
rld she lived in. “Camden Torres runs a company called Juggernaut.”
urity company.”
say should such a situation ever arise, Clara and Isabella would bring the kids home on their own and there would be no surviving bad guys.
e said with a quiet whi
rs and billionaires, but the file Clara pulled for me says he’s done far more.”
rom the road for a second in surprise, “you have a file on
sly. “As soon as I had the first date with him, and he bullied me into the second date. He’s quite disarming so I needed all th
with him?”
ed as she said the words aloud. “Damn it, it’s why I like him.” She punch
ike him, Isabella. Why are you giving him such a hard time?”
den.”
help a screaming girl in an alley. He’d race you to the girl and I have no doubt about it. You’re scared of him.”
ast night I think I already have.”
it, you talked to Elian about this gu
“Yes.”
r for advice, it’s too late for you.”
w.”
d he say?
“He tol
eering wheel. “No, he’s wrong.”
t makes sense for me to cut it off before I get too attached to this guy.”
la.”
d at her sister’s words.
ulio’s pizza.”
m only finding this out now? Sunday night?”
ng appreciative he yelled at me. All he does is yell and chastise me and tell me I need someone watching over me.”
k at. I was feeling so positive about it and then he wrecked it. He showed up last night to yell at me again for going for a jog when Evgeni is a loose cannon threatening me. As if I wouldn’t have had a clear plan before going. I knew where Evgeni was, I ran it by Clara and Ben, and I had my pepper spray.”
n?”
ut Clara’s security team has him under surveillance.” She grinned, “so does Cam’s though. Ben’s team and his have run into each other a couple of times. It’d be funny if it weren’t annoying.”
ng about Cam Torres though, for what it’s worth. Since the kidnapping, you’ve said you want to jump into life and not miss out. I think avoiding the potential of falling into love is the antithesis of what you’ve made your life goal.”
iberating their conversation, she answered the call.
to keep her voice neutral.
lled to her side and stroked Casper’s ears.
spered into the phone, “I will work on dictating orders at
tion did it take you to reach this conclusion?”
en I left your place last night.”
a smart
e was going to make a play and show you how a real man treats a lady.”
.”
nto the phone, “don’t make me fire my
e spoiled me for security specialists. One in my life is enough.”
nd the bush.
.”
ove to see what you did to someone who really pissed you off.”
ling.
s chaos.”
ighed and made a face. “Ask you
t basic of information?”
of defense projects.”
y shrink.”
et it. You can either tell me or I find out.”
ll you Cam,” she said seriously. “It doesn’t exist anywhere on paper, in a computer file or anywhere else. It happened to me and it’s mine and mine only to share.”
ight?”
study karate.”
unman.”
pened. She gets hundreds of threats a year.”
er Amelia couldn’t fight her way out of a room full of grannies.”
completely alone with without having security in the same room. I’m capable of taking care of myself Cam. I need you to trust me on this.”
too close to you, we do it my way.”
agreed.
stairs and let me in. My car i
n the glass, her heart thundering at the sight of him getting out of his car.
am, I don’t know.”
dow. “What don’t you know?”
’re out of my league,” she spoke before she could stop herself. “I’m in over my head. It’s barely be
k of you all the time
ou do?”
one-sided?” He leaned against the car, his phone held to his ear, as he studied her through th
eminding me of the big bad wolf in the little pig story.”
the blowing,” he said with a wide grin and was rewarded as she laughed suddenly at his comm
nts later she was standing at her front door, in a