The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 34
Isabella looked at the watch which never left her wrist and grimaced, it was nearly seven and she’d missed two messages from Clara.
She reached for her phone and smiled at the first message. Clara found Evgeni. She had known she would. She then frowned as she looked at the second message. She’d returned him to Mikhail to deal with.
She threw the blankets off the bed and gave an impatient snort. She called Clara’s personal cell but there was no answer. She sent her an angry text message as she made her way to the shower. Usually, she was on the subway by now and she’d not only overslept, but her stalker was also free again to be monitored by his bloody father whose inattention had let him loose on her mother yesterday. She was pissed off.
e she got downstairs
d Gideon are in his office. They said to send you in when you came down.”
go to the office.”
Evgeni before my guys?” Cam’s face was hard set.
er leader.
to share inte
r family.”
hen I’m right here!” he stood up behind the desk and while his voice didn’t raise an octave, the fury radiating off him was barely controlled.
e sleeping.”
yebrow raised wasn’t missed by Gideon who stood up.
bella as he crossed her path.
and he nuzzled her under her chin, “that’s where you went.”
y, just the food you sent. I couldn’t eat in front of him. I felt guilty.” He scratched his ears one last time as he patted her shoulder. “See you in a bit.”
at Cam. “I mean it. I need to go to the office.”
ng it was in-house job, but I know Ben and I know damn well, he’s not better than my guys. Nobody is better than my guys.”
hings she would never reveal. She had been through significant training to deal with situations far worse than this.
or instantly and c****d his head to one side. “Y
ore I need to go to the office.”
wer the ques
.”
geni Andropov? They were fast. Too fast. They had intel nobody else would have.”
work.” She responded ignoring the
ing secrets from me.”
told you, it’s above my paygrade.”
re lying.”
ell this how?”
ct.”
cked, it’s off.”
f the company your sister-in-law uses for what she dubbed her in-house security.”
w.”
d. “My team is the best of the best.”
mocked him.
and where they get their informat
s it because Clara managed a situation involving her family faster than you or because a woman managed to sort a situation faster than you?”
o had other information at her disposal I wouldn’t have access to in a million years.”
u’re going to come to the office today. Calvin will be pumped to see you. Lisa too. Maybe we’ll take you to the deli for lunch,” she turned away from Cam. “I expect to leave here in five minutes. Either have a car waiting or I’ll find my own way.”
he exited the office ju
”
Isabella.”
s were red rimmed and she knew she had been crying and had desperately tried to conceal it.
s wrong?”
stopped suddenly. “How do you do it?”
refully.
one to like you so much? Dad, Gideon, Mickey, Myriam, Evgeni,” the last
She made a face at the b
I just don
and to live my life the best way I can.”
for more.”
ding my safety. I started karate to defend myself in case I got mugged walking from the corner store. I found significantly more in it and in kendo. I learned peace and balance and the desire to know my place in the universe and to be better.”
en Dad and Gideon tried to teach me self-defence.”
pped up in desperately wanting someone to love you, you forget you need to love you first. Evgeni doesn’t deserve your love Portia, but you certainly do.”
o to any lengths, including asking your dad to kill me,” she saw the blush ride heavy on the woman’s cheeks, “but you didn’t stop to ask yourself why you were desperate for his attention.”
r and if it’s just the attention, then you need to sort out why.”
me I never have to settle for anything in my life. Not in my career, not in my friends, not in my love life.” She grinned suddenly, “and as long as I keep adding the right kind of fuel, hard work, dedication, honesty then the integrity of who I am will keep my fire lit long and well.”
and she saw Cam and Gideon both listening to their conversation. “Can we go? I’m now late for work and my boss is probably wondering why I’m not at my desk.”
if on cue her phone rang. She held it up, “yup, Calvin.”
e for our meeting. It’s at nine.”
on’t want to go to the Board meeting. You said you’d get me out of it.”
ried. I reminded her of the time you implied none of them had passed kindergarten because their math skills were horrible and
e is too high to continue.”
someday you’ll be running this office and you need the practice.”
do you live so damn far away? I should have just had Clara swing by and pick me up on the way.”
to do a presentation for my college class, and it took me months to prepare, and I still was too nervous to do it.”
my presentation.” She made a face, “I did the whole thing for him to present. I know it better than he does.”
ading towards the door.
do calculus without a calculator, and I can calculate the risk of you fracturing your ankle while wearing stilettos based on your years
lly?”
Yup,” she shrugged. “Casper and I have matching pyjamas, if it te
iggled at the revelation Cam’s driver knocked on the doo
s pissed off at her, but she didn’t care. She wa
the door, exited into the yard, and headed straight for the car, keeping Casper held ti
a,” Cam said suddenly.
t.”
the game tomorrow night, you and your father will have security detail.”
eon chuckled, “we’re all friends here, right?” Casper j
again, she groaned.
our sister hire to find Andropov?”
the two of them, “is not going to make me miraculously know something I’ve repeatedly told you I don’t know.”
ot to work, she was bedraggled, annoyed and ready to hire Bellona herself. Thankfully, he made no attempt to kiss her as she got out of the car, and she stormed away angrily. As Ben met her at the door to escort her straight to the boardroom, she looked over her shoulder and noted Cam still standing at the curb watching her through the glass lobby windows.
.”