Total pages in book: 93
Estimated words: 85228 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 85228 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 426(@200wpm)___ 341(@250wpm)___ 284(@300wpm)
"Nolan… umm Jericho gave me his number in case of an emergency."
"Jersey is working. He's out of state," he answers but doesn't offer anything further. The tone suggests he wouldn't tell me anymore either. "I just want you to know you're safe."
I take a step back when he takes a step forward, and like I've seen most of my life, his lips form a frown.
It's a form of rejection, and I've found that men take a hard strike to their ego when they realize they've been shunned. I start to tremble when I realize I don't know this man at all. Despite his claim that he's here to make sure I'm safe, I don't know how much faith I can actually put into it.
He takes two steps back, giving me as much room as the small kitchen allows, but it only calms that scream inside my head a little.
Chapter 24
Jersey
It doesn't matter that I'm going to have a front seat in taking down one of the most notorious sex traffickers the modern world has ever seen.
All my attention and focus are back home on a little house tucked away in the mountains.
Lark has assured me that she's fine and that there was someone outside her house, but whoever it was is gone now.
I know exactly who the fuck it was, and the first chance I get when I get back to town, I'm going to beat his head in.
"We've got the upper hand," Zeus says, looking more than a little annoyed that he even has to say the words, as if I'm some rookie who is letting the adrenaline take over.
We knew we had a little time when the sedan that Adair climbed out of drove off once the kingpin was in the house. The man on the porch snuffed out his cigarette and stood up a little straighter as if he was now tasked with the biggest job of his life with Adair inside.
We know there are three men inside, not counting Adair, and that makes us outnumbered by two.
Hemlock and others on the team are on their way, but the current situation isn't where my focus is, although it should be.
Adair is known to pull out no stops when it comes to getting away. He doesn't care who he hurts or kills so long as he makes his escape.
There's no telling what the man is doing inside the house. Although it's very likely he could be assaulting one or more of the women in there, we have to wait until we have reinforcements. Letting him get away isn't possible, and with the way we need things to go down for us to ensure Adair and his organization never hurt another person makes tonight's outcome more dangerous than a lot of situations any of us have been in.
The man has a team of attorneys and so many judges and prosecutors in his pocket that there's no other way for tonight to end than with that man taking his last breath, and as much as I would love to have been the one to make that happen, I can't seem to get my mind on anything else other than Caitlyn Rudd.
The woman is already complicating my life when she was never meant to be anything more than a tiny blip on the radar.
"How long?" I growl, needing this to be over sooner rather than later so I can get back to Gatlinburg.
I know better than to think that the idea of her is going to dry up and fade away, and although I have no idea what needs to be done to satisfy whatever obsession my mind has with the woman, I need to find a resolution quickly.
"Hemlock and the rest of the team are twenty minutes out, but the plan is to wait until Adair leaves the house and take him when he's about ten minutes away," Zeus explains. I can hear the excitement in his voice. "They have a team of federal agents who will hit the house at the same time to ensure none of those assholes come up behind us to defend their boss. We aren't sure how many other houses he has around here or how many men he has in a small enough radius to cause us problems."
Knowing Adair's history, he has several teams ready to mobilize even if it's just enough to keep us busy so he can get away. But with this being the first sighting anyone has seen of the man in months, maybe his guard is down a little, which will benefit us greatly.
I keep my eyes locked on the house, wishing the goon on the front porch would just go back inside, but I know better. He's there as the first line of defense to protect Adair. Despite the man inside not caring if his man lives or dies, I know for a fact this man would protect the demon inside with his last dying breath. Hell, I'd be surprised if the bossman even knows the guy's name, although he'd know everything else about the man.