The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 27
She was hungover, Isabella admitted as she glared at the computer screen on Tuesday morning. She was hungover and her head was pounding. She had come home to multiple text messages from Evgeni demanding to know where she was, who she was with and why she was ignoring him.
She had asked Clara to intervene yet again. She looked at her ringing desk phone and wondered if she’d dredged up her sister-in-law by just thinking of her as she recognized the extension. “Hey Clara – “
“Get your a*s up here now.”
so angry with her.
Clara’s command.
ing about privacy and teaching someone a lesson.
been back?” Clara didn’t even look up from where she was working furiously.
I needed sleep. He just wanted to know I was home safe.”
He didn’t say anything el
”
Clara conti
ing on?”
Your boyfriend pinged all our backgroun
”
yours. We made sure he only was able to access what we wanted him to see. We did not expect th
“Are you kidding?”
e’s digging. I want to know why.”
“how dare he?”
e, “you mentioned you were going to tell him. Tell him. Give him the golden egg so he backs the f**k off.”
“and do it now. Get your a*s to his offices.”
look up.
ffice and then made a face at Isabella’s countenance and closed his door again. She grabbed her purse and her coat and pounded the button of the elevator furiously.
f Juggernaut, her rage was palpable. She wanted to pound the hell out of him. She slammed her purse on the counter
tors. Out of the corner of her eye she noted two security guards walking towards her.
e said he would call you this evening at your home.”
y, her toe hurting in her boot.
the man’s ear, “tell your boss, I want to see him now. I don’t care who the f**k he’s meeting with.”
wn the hall and she shoved the struggling man to the floor. She pointed at him, “you take me to him now.”
“Isabella, Cam is bus
Is he? You have two minutes to get him to meet
d for her to precede him in the direc
evator, he looked at his phone, “Cam s
hen said, “my guy thinks you broke his ribs.”
.”
is job to remove you from the premises.”
en’t seen hostile yet.”
large boardroom opened to the corridor with glass. He made a face as he looked at his phone. “I’m going to leave you here Isabella. C
ly breathe. This was not one of those situations where with time you calmed down. The longer she ruminated on the intrusive behaviour of Camden Torres, she was becoming increasingly irate.
reign in her temper. The sound of the door opening had her closing her eyes and inhaling sharply.
surprise.”
“try again, Torres.”
”
p?”
nd I said I’d call you to set u
t the backgrounds of my friends and family, I might find out about it and be, oh, I don’t know, f*****g
ew to Rio on a whim. I
y her allegation she wondered if steam was visible from her burning ears. “You didn’t like I went out and partied with my friends, so you decided to just investigate them all?”
Clara Draxton has hidden all your backgrounds. What nefarious things does she have you embroiled in?”
omething nefarious she’s exposing us to but something sinister she’s protecting us from?” At his surprised glance she knew he had not. “Clara did hide only my background. She’s hidden many people’s backgrounds.”
ep breath but before she could speak, she waved her hand at him.
girls yesterday I thought maybe you were someone who could know my secret and not use it against me and now I don’t even have the choice. It’s the only way to make you back off, isn’t it?” He said nothing and she glared, her eyes watering with frustrated tears.
no secret Clara was kidnapped as a teenager. She helped me. She taught me self-defence. She took me to the women’s center where she volunteers a lot of her time and introduced me to a variety of women she has helped and who have helped her. In doing so, I’ve been exposed to many strong independent resilient women.”
his, we share a similar healing. Clara isn’t some sinister evil person dragging people to do something bad. She protects us and helps us. There are people at the women’s center I know, she has provided a brand-new identity to keep them safe from a
you betrayed my trust.”
o finesse.”
m reaching for her. “The worst part Cam, you very nearly made an enemy of an enormously powerful woman. Instead of considering all the good she does in the world, you immediately went to dark mode.”
y.”
as you’re going to be,” she laughed
n?”
nk there are no rami
n.”
what? Do you think I didn’t anticipate you searching my background?” At his surprised glance she laughed, “Torres, you already told me you did. I knew you were looking. But you went after my friends and my family. Clara Draxton had a ping on her personal background history from your company. Clara Draxton. One of the most powerful businesswomen
”
audible. “Clara Draxton doesn’t get angry. She gets even.”
h the glass storming towards the conference room. She lifted her purse and coat knowing what was coming.
ella.”
k I will. You violated not just mine, but hers and all my friend’s privacy. You attempted to hack into a company more tightly secured than the Pentagon. I k
ds Isabella. “Gideon!”
g. You’ve met her. She is her own person. She does what she wants when she wants. You went for the bull and now you’re getting the horns.”
und of people talking loudly in the corridor caught his ear an
ted to do.”
“Nope. If this were the case, you would have been in this room with me. Fairly sure Clara is confident enough in her skills, she doesn’t ne
orres,” she thought grimly. She might have had to spill her dark secret but at least he was going to pay for it.