Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 133213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 666(@200wpm)___ 533(@250wpm)___ 444(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 133213 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 666(@200wpm)___ 533(@250wpm)___ 444(@300wpm)
“No,” Ian said with a sigh. “The path is set, and you’re going to have to get on board. Do you want to give him a training crash course or should I?”
“Oh, it’s definitely going to be me.” If anyone was going to train Aidan, it would be him.
Aidan held up a hand. “Training? Like what kind?”
At least one good thing might come out of this. They would all die, but Aidan would get an education.
Tris felt a nasty smirk cross his face. “You’ll find out.”
He might have been out of control tonight, but Aidan would find he was still the boss come morning.
Chapter Six
“Are you sure?” Carys was still feeling vulnerable hours later as she stood in her cousin’s room. “I can sleep in the office.”
Kala had changed into boxer shorts and a tank, looking lean and predatory even with magenta pink hair piled on her head. She waved off the thought. “I sleep with Lou about half the time anyway. Bad dreams and stuff. I know. It’s a bad habit I haven’t broken yet, and tonight I have a perfectly valid reason.”
Her cousin had some secrets. She didn’t worry about Kala physically. Emotionally was another story altogether. “So TJ is cool with you sleeping with them?”
“Oh, I totally wait until after they’re done with the sex stuff. And then I leave before the morning sex stuff. He’s got a very specific pattern,” Kala admitted, and she looked around the room. “Maybe be careful in here. I can’t remember where I put all the weapons. Though I did disable all the traps. I think.”
“There are traps?”
Her pink-haired cousin’s head tilted slightly. “Of course. Who doesn’t have traps?”
“Me.”
“And that is why you fail.”
Her cousin was such a weirdo. “I will try not to touch your stuff. Luckily I had packed since we were supposed to spend tonight at the Ritz-Carlton before we got on the flight to Montreal tomorrow. Maybe we should still go. Aren’t we supposed to be pretending like nothing’s wrong?”
The door opened and Kenzie strode in with a couple of extra pillows. She handed them to her twin. Unlike her sister, Kenzie wore super feminine satiny shorts and a camisole top. “Did you disable all the traps? The last thing Carys needs is an arrow to the head.”
“What?” Carys asked.
“She’s kidding.” Kala frowned her sister’s way, but she could have sworn her cousin had said “it’s fine” under her breath.
Maybe she should sleep in the office. Or at her parents’. It had been a viable alternative, though she would have to have taken a bodyguard with her. Her mom had cried and asked her to come home, but she couldn’t do it. If she’d gone home, she would have let her mom and dad coddle her and talk her out of what she needed to do.
Go to Canada. Finish this thing once and for all.
We’re going in. I got a call from Huisman. Your uncle thinks he’s the one who sent the helicopter. We’re going to Canada on Wednesday, Aidan had said when they’d all sat down in her uncle’s office since he’d told her she’d violated his precious conference room.
Her dad had tried to not listen to that particular messy conversation.
All her conversations felt messy as hell now. Especially the super-stilted ones with Tristan and Aidan.
There had been little said beyond Aidan explaining he’d talked to Huisman and now Tris couldn’t keep them out. He’d said it like he was giving her a gift, like he’d done it for her.
She’d been both afraid and gratified. And oddly invigorated.
They were going to finish this. It was going to end one way or another.
“As to if you should go to the swanky hotel you were going to consummate your marriage in, the answer is no,” Kala said. “Unless you want a bunch of us sleeping with you. Personally, I think you’re better off here. Have you thought about what would have happened when you’re getting all down and dirty with Aidan and suddenly oops, Tris is there?”
“He wouldn’t have…” Except he’d been at the wedding, and he was an arrogant bastard who probably thought he could sneak into her bed. Maybe it was something he and Aidan had been planning all along. She wouldn’t put it past them.
“I bet he would have.” Kala frowned. “After all, the dude is willing to sleep on the couch.”
Kenzie’s nose wrinkled. “Yeah, I should warn you about that. They kind of broke in and took over the office, so you should know they’re probably going to be here in the morning. By probably I mean will be.”
“Unless you want me to get rid of them.” Kala’s expression had brightened.
“They have their own place to go to.” She’d assumed they would go to their house or to the apartment close to the hospital she and Aidan had recently moved into. There were no rooms at this particular inn. They were kind of filled to the brim at this point.