The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 29
Isabella felt her temper escalating incalculably when she reached Cam’s house on Staten Island and realized not only was he a mere twenty-minute drive from Clara and Elian’s home, but his daughter also came with the house. She had forgotten Portia was at his house. Worse, the guard Mickey, relayed they had just missed Evgeni at her house. He had arrived just after they departed and the guard, they had placed there to grab him missed him when he jumped into his friend’s car.
The girl came running outside and came to a standstill in front of Isabella. Her hair was perfectly coiffed Isabella considered she could do tutorials on the internet on how to perfectly apply make-up because there wasn’t a single thing out of place. Even in the clothes she was wearing at home, it was designer and tailored to her overly thin body. Isabella found herself wondering if the girl had an eating disorder based on how thin she was.
“Why are you here?”
use.
followed quick on
you mean
ing she were anywhere but here. Portia’s voice was nails on a chalkboard to her sanity. She looked to the guard, “can’t I
uggernaut by jumping in a sports car driven by someone else. He has someo
rupted again.
now he’s completely insane. He is mad because I refuse to go back with him, and his thoughts are either I give in to him and be with him or I die. Those are my choices according to him.” She looked back to her guard. “I just want to go somewhere and be alone. Where can I just be alone?”
”
he was going through. She found a giant oversized black leather recliner in the corner of the room and curled up in it with Casper in her arms.
’t like anyone sitting in it.”
I don’t care. In fact, if he were here, I still wouldn’t care.”
e really b
nstead buried her face in Casper’s fur and closed her eyes.
tion as it bounced off a wall. “I hate him!” She growled furiously instantly regretting not having her phone in her hand. The guard must have read her face and she watched as he picked it up and passed it back to her.
. You could have broken it,” sarcasm dripped from
idn’t meet his glance, silently accep
e of a workday.”
ession?”
just fini
orres’ house until they can find him and get him under control.”
ce was soft. “Are you alone?”
ere too.”
Sabine’s face right now was probably screwed up tight a
.”
one without the insurance.”
t Harlem?”
her going there alone. I
der it cancelled. I’ll go with her to her appointment.”
f she shows up in anything flashy, the girl will bolt and it’s a high-risk pregnancy. She thinks everyone is a narc including her midwife.”
but your sister drives like my grandmother. Y
and your date, my treat.”
“Yes!”
one other favor.”
e.”
n’t kn
clothes?”
ggernaut?”
rom there will get them to me here.”
y. Love you.”
n with you later.”
s.”
he phone and Porti
as really cool.”
lifted an eyebrow in her direction.
’s like you two were finishing each others’ thoughts and sentences. Like telepathically.”
orld. She knows me better than I know me. She also has a doctorate in psychology and so she shrinks me daily. I promise it’s not ESP.”
mily?”
two brothers and my parents. Half a dozen aunts and uncles and more cousins than you can
t you can tell they don’t like me much.”
t off her lap and she let him go. He jumped on the sofa and put his head on Portia’s lap.
looked at the dog with surprise.
always someone with you making sure every nice comment, deed, action gets documented for posterity?”
ust likes to be photographed with me
e just likes to be photographed.” Isabella correcte
for someone who has such lovely parents, he’s a dickhead. Mikhail and Raisa did him zero favors giving him everything he ever wanted and telling him he’s the most important thing in the world. He doesn’t know how to be a decent human being.”
answer she asked another question. “Or how many times did he do something you found offensive and when you called him out on it, somehow it was all your fault, and he would forgive you for misunderstanding his intentions? He’d make it seem like he did nothing wrong and you’d be apologizing for what he did.”
d left the room.
ou really not interested in sleeping with him but because he h
me to have s*x. I wanted to.”
’d end up sleeping with him out of guilt.”
enied it angrily.
t.”
him three years?”
ted to leave but just never knew how.”
ever going to be the things he could give me.”
ot enough money for
m a young age. Hard work, empathy, compassion, and the ability to do the right thing even when you really want to do the wrong thing.”
she had seen her own brain.
hould pay him just to exist. He doesn’t care about people who don’t have the same social status
saw him give a homeless man twenty dollars to watch his car.” Portia argued. “He’s kin
ple don’t piss on it too.”
ds. “Not true!”
at do I have to gain by lying to you Portia?”
him back.”
my sister-in-law to have her security team provide extra security detail to me so I could get to and from work without being accosted by him. Today, your father threw me into a car and sent me here with my dog just so he couldn’t abduct me and shoot me in the head like he threatened to do but it’s me chasing him.”
ou’re just teasing him, so he’ll come back to you. You know what men like him are like. You tell them no and they chase you to the ends of the earth
s she considered Cam probably told her if she ignored Evgeni maybe he’d come back.
re his forever. He then threatened to kill Mikhail, your father and Gideon for trying to stop him from taking what is rightfully his.”
arked at her and raced in a circle on the sofa. “My dad would have told me.”
d protecting her from the truth. She motioned to the dog, “Casper is feeling your stress, Portia. He’s trained and he’s giving
s and your dog is stupid. I hate you. I hope Evgeni does find you and does kill you. Once you’re gone, he will come back for me, and we’ll be together. I hate you!” She shrieked and raced out of the room.
la snapped her fingers and Casper jumped off the sofa and jumped in her lap, although he kept looking over his shoulder in the direction
stepped back into the room and eyed her critically, “pretty sure the bos
her wrapped so tight in bubble wrap she doesn’t know day from night. She needs a reality check.”
an one person for telling her off.”
n hungover the day prior were all very much sucking the energy from her.
sleep there.”
”
ey looked at her seriously, “you look like hell.”
e chair unable to argue any longer. Between still being hungover from the day before and the events so far today, she just wanted to rest. “Great. Show me the way.”