Damien stared as the door to the SUV slammed closed.A man bent and grabbed something.He walked backward…
Dragging Harmony to an SUV.
“Fuck,” Montgomery yelled.“Why the fuck was she out there by herself?We were supposed to be watching her.Who fucked up?”
“I did.She was bored sitting here and went to talk to Berkeley.She ordered food for everyone, and I didn’t think there was a reason to worry about her being up front.Berkeley is up there all the time by herself.I should have told her to stay back here where it was safe,” Damien said, beating himself up for letting the woman he loved get kidnapped.
“You think?”Montgomery snapped.
“Boss,” Austin said.
The two of them had a conversation with their eyes, and Montgomery sighed, hands going to his hips.“I didn’t know it was like that, Damien.”
“Excuse me?”Damien asked.
“I know she’s not officially a client, but we have accepted responsibility for her safety.I didn’t realize she was more than that to you.”
Damien sighed.“I love her.I told her that over the weekend.She said the same.I can’t fucking lose her.”
“You’re not going to,” Austin said.
“Yeah, we’ll find her.We won’t stop until we do,” Jude said.
“Except we have no fucking clue where she is.We’ve already looked into Grant Pickens.We didn’t find anything that made us think that that fucker was the one behind all this.”
“Wait, Grant Pickens?The billionaire?”Austin asked.
Damien nodded.
“I thought he was the one she saved,” Austin said.
“Yeah, but it seems he didn’t really want to be saved.Or need to be saved.Harmony and Damien saw him out to lunch today with one of the guys from the break-in.The same one who broke into her apartment,” Rhett shared.
“What the fuck?”Austin breathed.
“We’re waiting for Marcus to get the footage from the restaurant so we can find out who he is,” Montgomery said.
“They’re brothers,” Marcus said from behind them.
“Brothers?”Montgomery asked.“I thought Grant Pickens didn’t have any family.”
“He doesn’t, but his real name isn’t Grant Pickens,” Marcus added.“His name is Stuart Smith.His brother is Kiernan Smith.That’s who he was having lunch with today, and who broke into Harmony’s apartment.”
“And who kidnapped her,” Damien said.
“That’s what I would assume,” Marcus said.
“We have the footage.It looks like he’s not alone, but he’s the only one we can see,” Rhett said.
“That’s not good.We have to find her.Now,” Marcus growled.
“We know.But it’s been five seconds since we learned their names.We don’t know anything about them.”
“They’re killers.They’re tying up loose ends,” Marcus said.
“What the hell does that mean?”
“It means Harmony was right about there being three of them.The one we took into custody is dead.He had his jaw and hands broken less than forty-eight hours after we got him.He died before he was able to tell us anything about who did that or about the break-in.”
