The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 37
An hour later Isabella was laying on her sofa with a throw blanket over her, Casper cuddled up to her chest and the television flicking a commercial about indigestion medication making her wonder if the ache in her chest was caused by the popcorn or by the fear of losing Cam if he knew her truth.
Her phone rang and she grabbed it knowing it was Clara.
“We got him.”
?”
his family. I need him to understand I won’t either.”
. He’s higher than a kite complain
years old on a Thursday night?”
or may not have punched his buddy Anton out cold.”
Mama’s house.”
g to lie Isabella, I’m here at Mikhail’s waiting for them to bring him and I don’t want to go in. I want my team to scoop
orry.”
m for ever putting it in your head to date Evgeni all those years ago.”
for it.”
ow to use a gun.”
Isabella said seriously.
mment. “There’s a plan.”
e long haul. I don’t even know what it means but he pretty much admitted what he does for a living to me.”
e still connected.
him all the time and you suddenly need to disappear a couple times a month, sometimes for days on end with no communication, you may need to let him in on your secret.”
ing up
knows.”
o point oh.” She bit out in surprise. “Can I tell him such a thing?”
you love him and you think you trust him to never tell anyone anything, then as Artemis three point oh, you may not have a choice.”
three point oh,” she whispered and then asked curiously, “Am I Artemis three point oh?”
and you learn s**t way faster than I ever did. Artemis may skip the two point oh and just go with the latest version.”
e a hundred to be Artemis.”
your balls.”
w. I called her old a few weeks ago and she grabbed my ponytail and threatened to rip it out of my head. Though what you just said explains why she said if I wasn’t damn invalu
th words. She likes you Ruiz. I love you.” Clara was quiet for a second, “looks like your boyfriend is here. He really doesn’t like it w
ies.”
’s all angry marching towards my car with his black leather jacket all rippled over those muscly bits. Those eyes could c
and send it to me? Then tell him you did. Also, get the photo of his expression when you tell him
the expression on his face when Clara obviously told him she’d asked for the photo, obviously confused made her laugh until her sides hurt.
be unavailable for some time, but she would give her the full scoop when she was done. She replied with a thumbs up emoji and then rested the phone on her chest.
im? She lay there and considered the question. Did she love Camden Torres? How did what she felt compare to any relationship she had before. Without question she felt more for him than she ever did Evgeni or the boy she’d been interest
surprise to her of course. She had said all along she didn’t want to date him because she would be heartbroken at the end of it. Even in the phone calls she had shared with him or the middle of the night conversations between lovemaking and sleep she loved his brain and how thoughtful he was, how he considered things and how he listened to her. She loved how he enjoyed just holding her and when he threw his head back and laughed, the way his chest rumbled.
nterests at heart and Evgeni Andropov was not in her best interests.
ut admitted it tonight. Some people in this field of work had to compartmentalize, rationalize what they were doing, and some refused to have any kind of relationship. Like he had done for most of his adult life.
issed Casper’s wet nose. “Little buddy, I’m so f*****g confused.”
d she looked at the number, recognizing it immediately knowing it wasn’t one who had called it in the las
call, “Hey Portia what’s up?”
raspy as if she were crying, “Isabella. I’m scared and I can’t ge
nd of the sofa.
”
security detail?”
e Evgeni was with me partying and then we had a fight and he called me a spoiled brat and told me nobody would
passed?”
ather she wore for missions in the city.
. I let someone give me a drink and I think he spiked it. I don’t remember much, and I think I blacked out. I’m at his apartment. I started to come
back. “Did he rape you?”
his house from the inside though with a key. I can’t get out and it’s an apartment on the top floor somewhere. It smells bad. I’m in his bathroom and
opening the door. Lacey met her on the other side. She pointed to Casper and Lacey nodded and m
I’m coming to get you. I know where you are.” She grabbed a few item
y dad is going to be mad.”
g to talk to you about whatever you need to talk to. She has Casper with her okay.”
”
o stay with you. You stay in the bathroom until I come and g
r helmet on her head and tied the second one to the handlebars. She prayed to a God she didn’t believe in she got to Portia before the man who’d drugged her woke up.
n she got there, Sabine was climbing off her own bike, having just arrived.
me,” Sabine said seriously. “How do you want to do this?”
As violently as possible,” Isabella said with a sneer as she ripped a knife from her boot and pulling her balaclava over her face before kicking in t