I began to sweat, feeling like an idiot. “I trusted him.”
“I know,” Richard said, “But you are not the first athlete to be taken advantage of by their agents or financial advisors. His own greed was his downfall.”
“What happens now?” I asked.
“I’ll take this back and get a warrant issued for his arrest.“
I hardened my jaw. “I want to be rid of him and go back to my life in San Diego.”
“About that,” Jones said. “Are you aware that he’s accused you of stalking him and his wife?”
My eyes flew open. “What? No. What the hell?”
He pulled out a complaint and handed it to me. I read over it, but I was missing something. “When was this filed?”
“This past November.”
I huffed out an irritated breath. “I haven’t been here since the end of July. But he sure as hell showed up in San Diego and tried to get me to give him a cut of my new contract.”
Please god don’t make me have to reveal the nature of our relationship to them.
“That would explain the trespassing charges filed by the Carlisle Corporation,” Detective Jones added.
“Yes, that’s the team owner. They are sponsoring my new visa to the United States. But it’s been held up, and I had to come back here.”
“My advice would be to schedule an appointment with the Department of Home Affairs to see if they can check on it. This charge may have snagged the process on our end.”
I was confused, and my heart was trying to beat out of my chest. “Was it filed? Am I going to be arrested?”
“No, but the report was filed, but marked incomplete. It didn’t quite make sense with you out of the country, or at all, really. When Richard contacted me, it fell together.”
I ran my hands through my hair. “I can’t believe all this. He has fucked up my life more than once.”
“I understand,” Detective Jones added. “But it will sort itself out. It may take a couple of months, but it will be resolved in the end. Once I have the charges filed, we’ll start with a court date. That usually takes a month or so.”
My head flew up. “A couple of months? ”
“I’m sorry,” Detective Jones added. “The hands of justice move slow.”
Scrubbing my hands over my face, all I could think about was how I would explain this to Carson.
Chapter 33
Carson
After his meeting with the accountant, Colin called to fill me in. My heart sank to my feet when he said it could be months before everything with Leland was settled. What would we do then?
I waited until midnight to call my parents. It would be eight a.m. in London, so I knew they’d be up.
“It’s okay, son. Take a breath.”
I paced my living room, looking out at the ocean. “But that fucker is the reason his visa was delayed, I know it. And don’t get me started on the money.”
My dad sighed. “Probably. But they’ll get it straightened out. Even if they don’t recover the money, he’s making ten times that with the Storm. Do you really think the money is more important to Colin than being with you?”
I sat down and fisted my hair. I knew my answer, but I wasn’t the one who had been taken advantage of. “I can’t let him go through this alone.”
“Then don’t,” my father said. “Get on a plane and go to him.”
