Going in Deep (Billionaire Bad Boys 4)

Anger, real, genuine anger filled Julian. “Did he say where to send these kids?” Julian asked. “Did he give you an address?”

She nodded and spouted the information.

The vise in Julian’s chest eased a little. “I’ll take care of it,” he said through gritted teeth.

“What are you going to do?” she asked, wide-eyed and panicked.

He let out a low, ugly laugh. Not what he wanted to, which was to beat the other man senseless.

“I’m going to do some digging.” He hadn’t become a computer genius without picking up some skills. “I’ll find out who Billy’s parole officer is and let them know where they can find him during his daylight hours. With a little luck, he’ll land himself back in jail in no time”

He glanced at Alex, worried she’d be upset he was plotting to send her brother back to jail. Regardless of what Billy had asked of her, they were blood related.

But she merely looked relieved.

“Meanwhile, you send him to me if you have another problem. Okay?” he asked.

“Okay,” she whispered.

* * *

Kendall came home Sunday afternoon and worked with Josie and the Maryland employee to get the dogs settled in their new pens. It always broke her heart, to move dogs from place to place and note their confusion and sad little faces. If she had her way, she’d live in a house with acreage and the ability to take in more than one dog.

Of course, she was afraid she’d become the old dog lady with more dogs than friends. But that wasn’t something she would dwell on.

She was so tired she slept from eleven p.m. on Sunday to eleven a.m. on Monday, as Josie had given her the day off for a job well done. She woke up more rested.

Still not happy.

Still missing Julian.

Still growing more and more annoyed with the silence from her sister and Kade. She planned to corner them both at Blink this afternoon and hear what they had to say. Only then could she begin to make her own choices and decide what to do with Julian.

God, it hurt to even think about breaking things off with him. But she couldn’t imagine not having her sister in her life, either.

“I can’t think about this until I know more.” She dressed, grabbed Waffles, who was always welcome at Blink, and took a taxi downtown.

She showed up to find Lexie in Kade’s office, the door open, so she knocked and walked in.

“Hi,” she said to them both.

“Kendall! I was going to call you after work. Hey, Waffles,” Lexie said, bending down and beckoning to the dog.

Kendall released the leash, and Waffles ran for her cuddles.

“Hi, Kendall,” Kade said in his deep voice.

“Hi.”

“How was Maryland?” Lexie asked, rising from her crouching position.

“Fine. And I don’t want to talk about Maryland or dogs or anything else that’s trivial. You two have my life in your hands, and I haven’t heard from either of you. Now—”

“Kendall, let’s sit,” Kade said in a tone that worried her.

“Let’s just talk right now.” She folded her arms across her chest. “I understand that you have hard feelings with Julian, that you’re angry, that you don’t trust him, and that you have good reason. But I do.” She placed her hands near her heart. “He’s proven himself to me over and over again. All I’m asking is that you give him a chance. Or give me a chance to prove that he’s changed.”

Kade glanced at Lexie. “I say we tell her now.”