“Let me check,” Blade said, typing something into his computer. “The banks have all received the police report, but they are still conducting their investigation. They’re all slow right now. I wouldn’t expect the debt to start clearing until later next month.”
“I can’t wait that long.” I paced in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window.
“Do you have plans?” Greg asked acerbically. “You need to be concerned about winning that election. I have money riding on development in Harrogate.”
“Not in the greenbelt,” Garrett warned him. “Meg will dump Hunter if that happens.”
“It would be after she signs for our sisters,” Greg said. “After that, it doesn’t matter.”
We were silent for a moment.
“No word from Crawford?”
“Hopefully, he fell into a vortex, and we’ll never hear from him again,” Greg said in a clipped tone. “I have other things to do. Blade, can you pull up the presentation? Blade?”
My brother was staring at his screen, concern etched on his face.
“What is it?” Garrett asked.
“Er, uh, nothing,” Blade said, hastily shut his computer, realized he was supposed to be giving a presentation, then opened it again.
Greg and I went around the table to his computer.
“Stop trying to hide things from me,” Greg warned. “I am in no mood.”
“It’s nothing,” Blade insisted. His eyes flicked to Garrett.
“I’m sure it’s nothing,” Garrett added. “Blade, the presentation.”
“What is going on?” Greg demanded.
“Now you need to calm down, Greg,” Garrett said.
“It’s Belle, isn’t it?” Greg’s fists were clenched at his side. My half brother had our father’s temper. I started to grow concerned for Blade. Greg didn’t often lose it, but when he did, the fallout was nuclear.
“Belle is currently working on developing that property that she stole from you,” Garrett said. “Blade, the presentation?”
“What did you do?”
“She’ll be fine,” Blade said nervously.
Greg was going to go berserk. “Blade.”
He blew out a breath. “I have Dad’s email account monitored,” he explained. “He sent an email a few hours ago to one of his lackeys with information about Belle and how she had tricked her way into the compound. He told his lackey to pull the trigger while he cleans everything else up.”
“I need to find her. And I swear to God, you two,” Greg said to Garrett and Blade, “if anything happens to her, I will skin you.”
The door to the conference room slammed after he left.
“Surely Dad isn’t going after Belle,” Mace said.
“The Frost brothers are going to flip their shit if anything happens to their sister,” Beck said, shaking his head.
“I’m not worried about them,” I said brusquely, running through scenarios of what Dad could possibly be up to.
“You should be worried about Owen,” Beck said seriously.
“Then I guess you better not tell him.” He and I stared at each other.
