“I suggest you put the gun down now, Nathan,” Liamthreatened.
Nate hadn’t gotten the advice he so needed.“Do I take himout or let him shoot me?Because I’m torn.Daisy told me he’s got a bad back.”
“A bad back my arse,” Li bit out.
“She didn’t say anything about your arse,” Nate allowed.“Just your back.I’m supposed to be nice to you.”
Ian snorted.“Take the old guy down.It’s the only languagehe’ll understand.”
“As if he…” Liam began.
Nate turned, his arm coming out to knock the gun away, andthen he shifted, one leg sweeping under Liam’s and putting him on the ground.Nate was on one knee, his hand around his future father-in-law’s throat beforeLi could take another breath.
He could suddenly see exactly how amped Daisy’s father was.
“Charlie, baby, I’ll call you back.No.I’m going to assumeDaisy wanted to give Nate some cover so she called in and told a whopper of astory and it worked,” Ian was saying.“However, Nate’s trying to decide if he’sgoing to kill Li.I know.I already offered him one of the twins.He seemsintent on Daisy.”
“Nate, what are you doing to my da?”Daisy was out on thestairs leading from the privacy rooms down to the lounge, still dressed in thesheet she’d taken from the bed.“I told you about his back.”
Nate stood, holding his hands up.“He put a gun to the backof my head.”
“Yes, and I could have killed you if I wanted to.Well, ifI’d thought I could get away with it.”Liam sat up and groaned when he lookedover at his daughter.“Girl, where the hell are your clothes?”
Avery rushed over.“Liam, are you all right?Did you hurtyour back?”
Liam stopped looking angry long enough to reach for hiswife’s hand.“I’m fine, my darlin.”The frown was back when he looked at Daisy,who’d made her way down the stairs and was joined by her friends.“I’m stillwondering where our daughter’s clothes got to.Did they run away from you,girl?”
Daisy shrugged.“They’re kind of all over.Nate chased methrough the dungeon and then we ended up in this weird room with Elvis, Ithink.”
Ian turned her way, his jaw dropping.“You slept in mypersonal privacy room?And that is not Elvis.Li, you have ruined that girl.Fucking Elvis.That is Axl Rose, you infant.”
“Who?”Daisy asked, her eyes wide.
Axl Rose.That’s who the dude was.Now he remembered.“Babe,I think he was like a singer in the olden days.”
“Don’t matter who he was.The fact is this man is takingadvantage of my daughter.”Liam managed to get off the floor.“And where thehell are your clothes, Nathan?Do you think you’re in the bloody Garden ofEden?You are supposed to be a bodyguard not some gigolo.”
“Is that an old-time singer, too?”Daisy asked.
It was good to know she wasn’t up on all the ways a mancould be called a sex worker.He was going to ignore it.He definitely wasn’tgoing to tell Liam he would fulfill his daughter’s sexual needs for absolutelyno money at all.
“Well, I thought someone might be trying to kill us so Ilocked Daisy in and came out to save us,” Nate explained with a long sigh.“Then I realized it was just the old guard trying to test the new.”
“Old guard, my arse,” Liam began and put a hand to his lowerback.
“Li, are you okay?”Avery stared at her husband.“I told youthis was a bad idea.Nate, I’m sorry.He wanted to make sure you were takingthe job seriously.I told him you were.”
“I was right.Look at him.He’s not even dressed,” Liamcomplained.“And I easily got him.”
Alex frowned.“I told you where he was because I thought itwould be funny to watch him take Ian down.You had no idea where he was, and Ionly did because he let me go.What the hell, man?Nate, you did a good job.Ithought we would catch you sleeping.The alarm didn’t go off.”
“The uncles made us run through really fast.They wereyelling like we were in the Army,” Brianna complained.
Liam shook his head.“Well, young lady, you were taking yoursweet time.”
“She was trying to bring her friend some coffee.”It wasobvious Avery was not happy.
Damn.This would set Daisy back.
