Sure I had heard this wrong, I peeked around the corner and frowned. Knight was barking orders at everyone from Reed Security. The sound of a drill cut through the mountain air, and Chris was on a ladder, installing security cameras all around the entrance.
“What the fuck?”
Knight turned around and sighed when he saw blood soaking through the sheet. He clicked a button on comms, his jaw clenching in irritation as he looked at me. “Kate, I’m gonna need you out front. Parker’s having issues.”
“What the hell is going on?” I asked, interrupting what looked like a very busy morning.
“Installing security. What does it look like?”
“But…why?”
He had just turned to yell at Cazzo when he stopped and slowly swiveled back to me. “Why? Did you really just fucking ask me why?”
“Yeah, I’m pretty sure I did.”
His jaw hardened as he stalked toward me. “Because you moved out to the middle of nowhere?—”
“Montana.”
“And anyone could break into your house and kill you, yet no one would know. If Blake was trapped in the house with a psychopath, you wouldn’t have any cameras on the inside. You would have no way of keeping an eye on her.”
“Pretty sure Blake could take on any psychopath,” I retorted, pointing at the blood dripping all over the sheet.
“And what about your child? Are you so sure about your child’s safety? Are you positive that the neighbor who liked to cut up small animals as a child is safe to be close to?”
“He’s actually about ten miles away. At least. How do you know all this?”
“Did you really think I wouldn’t look at the whole fucking ranch and town before I came out here?”
“Well, I didn’t even know you were coming out here, to be fair.”
Storming past me, he yelled at Wolf. “The idea is to make it harder to get in!”
I did a double-take as I watched Wolf up on the roof, doing something to the chimney. “Is he?—”
“Let’s get back to the real issue,” he said, crossing his arms over his chest. “You’re getting lazy. You left Reed Security, and you decided it’s safe in your hometown, on your ranch.”
“I—”
“You have nothing but locks on the doors. Did you forget about everything we went through? You have a kid on the way, and there’s not a damn thing baby-proofed about the house.”
“Because we just found out we were having a kid!”
The drill went off again, but this time, it was in the eaves of the house. “Hey, what the fuck is Hunter doing with—Is that a machine gun?” I shouted.
“I’m sorry, did you think you were going to fight off intruders with a handgun?”
“Yeah!” I shouted, rushing to the house to yell at Hunter to take it out, but the blood loss caught up to me and I swayed on my feet.
“Whoa, take it easy there!” Kate said, rushing over to my side as I nearly toppled over. “Can’t have you end up in the hospital on your wedding day.”
“Seems about right,” I gasped as she lowered me to the ground.
“Good thing I brought my medical bag,” she grinned, rolling me to my side so she could see the glass sticking out of my back.
“When with Knight,” I murmured.
“Exactly. So, this doesn’t look too bad…Huh. That’s interesting.”
