64
KIERA
My eyes rolledas Dom towered over me, using her height to intimidate me.
Crossing my arms, I stared back up at her. She wasn’t pushing me out, not if she was going to insist on holding me hostage in her haunted ass mansion.
Leo stepped forward, breaking Dom’s lording over me. “I didn’t bring her, she’s waiting outside.”
“She’s a flight risk, Leona.” Dom hissed.
“You wouldn’t run, would you, Bunny?” Spencer draped her arm over my shoulders, a smirk on her face that should have made our late night tryst obvious to everyone within a thirty mile radius.
Dom opened her mouth, but instead a new gravelly voice came from the DA’s doorway.
A tall, lean vision walked into the hallway, their hands buried in the pockets of their trousers. “Who’s this pretty thing?”
Dapping them up, Spencer smiled as her eyes passed over my body. “This is Kiera, our new roommate.”
With a knowing nod, the muscular preppy smiled and shook my hand. “Kennedy Burns, DA’s kid. I’d show you my tat, but if Idid, those security guards would escort me out.” They winked at me as they let a warm smile onto their face. “You’re lucky to have these three, fierce protectors.”
Leo scoffed. “We’ve saved Ken’s life once or twice.”
“More like all of LD. Good luck in there, she’s in a mood.” Kennedy waved as they headed down the hallway. “Nice to meet you, Kiera.”
And then the DA’s office door swung open, a woman with a stern and defined face crossed her arms. Despite her age and more femme appearance, I could see the resemblance to Kennedy. Wearing a deep purple pantsuit and four inch heels, my eyes blinked quickly. Had women always been this gorgeous? Or was Valemont putting something in the water?
My eyes flicked to the plaque next to the door.Ms. Veronica Burns, District Attorney.
That was a DA if I’d ever seen one.
Burns waved my three captors forward. “Let’s move. I don’t have all day.”
Leo and Spencer moved forward, wiggling their eyebrows at me as they walked away. But Dom moved closer, the smell of her sweat and a warm wood washing over me as I looked up into her furious eyes.
Nose curled, Dom leaned into my ear. “Move and I’ll ruin you. Anywhere you run, I’ll find you.”
Waiting until she’d moved into the office, I swallowed the lump in my throat.
Jesus.I still couldn’t understand why she would agree to keep me in her house if she hated my guts so much.
Once Leo closed the door behind them, leaving me in the silence of the City Hall’s fifth floor hallway, I knew I had to decide now. I had no idea how long I had, how quickly this meeting with the District Attorney would be.
But I needed those records, and the Recorder’s office was within arm’s reach. I couldn’t let the chance slip past me. It might be the last one I had to figure out why I knew this place, why it was all so familiar to me. And that chain of title was the key.
Jolting from the wood bench, I took off down the hallway.
I’d take the consequence from Dom if it meant getting the answers that could set me free.
65
KIERA
Tapping against the floor,my foot was becoming a stampede of nerves. I’d been trying desperately to steady it in the quiet office — well aware that it was the loudest noise in the County Recorder’s office.
Though the man to my left gave me a run for my money, his snoring bouncing off the stone walls.
I fidgeted with the slip of paper between my fingers as I stared at the clock over the counters. It had already been five minutes and there was no one in front of me. But at the pace these workers were moving, it might take a decade to be called up.
