I locate a guy dressed all in black with wraparound shades that make him look like a robot. He could be staring straight at me. He could be reading my lips. It’s hard to tell with his stony expression and the adrenaline distorting my vision.
“They think I’m scamming them with the pregnancy,” I add just to be clear.
“Remy, they don’t think that at all.” Sienna glances at Victoria.
“You don’t know, do you?” Victoria says softly.
“Don’t know what?”
“Let’s walk.” Victoria unfolds the wrapped from around my hot dog. “You can eat, and we’ll talk.”
17
CASH
Victoria and Siennaare seated around the table in Caleb’s boardroom at the Wraith when I walk in. Bash is there too. And Kyle.
“What’s going on? Where is Remy?” I address my sisters-in-law.
There can only be one reason why they’re sitting here today, and it occurs to me that I’ve played this all wrong. Again.
“Sit down, Cash.” Kyle gestures to the seat next to my twin.
Victoria waits until I’m seated before she says, “Why weren’t you honest with her?”
“I have been.” I glance at Bash who looks equally as confused. “We told Remy what her ex is up to, but I thought we’d moved on from that. We know that she isn’t involved. Remy knows that we know.”
“You’re sure about that, are you?” Victoria presses.
My brothers are silent; they’re letting her do the talking. For now. Bizarrely, this is the most pressure I’ve ever felt during afamily conference. I pour a shot of brandy into a glass and down it in one.
“Is that a trick question?”
Sienna sits forward. “Did you explain to her why she’s being followed around town by bodyguards?”
Shit. She knew Bash was having her followed before she told us that she was pregnant. I scour my brain for a conversation about protecting her and the babies and draw a blank.
“Try looking at it from her perspective,” Victoria says. “She’s a college student, not a celebrity. She’s never met anyone with a team of bodyguards at their disposal before, and now suddenly, she’s got men tracking her wherever she goes.”
“I’ll talk to her.”
Bash is still silent.
“We had to tell her.” Sienna rests both hands on the table, palms flat. “She was panicking. We didn’t want her to get the wrong idea and run away.”
Victoria steps in. “We all know what could happen if you lose her.”
She doesn’t have to spell it out. The two women seated around this table have both been abducted at the hands of our enemies. In Sienna’s case, it happened twice, and she almost died at the hands of her captor.
“How did she react?”
“She took it surprisingly well.” Victoria smiles. “She thought we were joking when we told her that her babies will be born into a mafia family.”
“She did?” Warmth spreads through my body chased down by guilt. This should’ve been our job. Bash and I should’ve prepared her, laid our cards on the table, and let her decide. Just like mom said.
“Then reality kicked in,” Victoria continues, “and we had to bring her back here before someone called the cops on us.”
“Where is she now?” I half stand up. If she’s here in the Wraith, why didn’t I know about it? “Let me speak to her.”
