Daddy's Angel (Montana Daddies 7)

“Won’t anyone save me

From the depths of my despair

Please won’t someone save me

Before I disappear.”

Jesus. That was the secret message? Those could have been lyrics from any song from any artist. This guy was completely cuckoo. Which didn’t bode well for Bain.

“So what do we do?” Rob asked nervously. “There’s still that other bodyguard up there with her.”

They didn’t know about Caleb and the others? That was good. It meant Arianna had plenty of protection.

“How we going to get to her? They’re going to notice he’s gone soon.”

“Okay. . .okay. . .just let me think.”

He opened his eyes a slit. His head was slumped forward so he couldn’t look up. He could see two pairs of shoes in front of him, so he continued to tug carefully at the ropes around his wrists.

“We need to get her out of the apartment and away from her bodyguard but what would draw her out?” There was a moment of silence. “I have it. This guy. We’ll use him.”

“Use him how?” Rob asked.

“We’ll pretend we’ve kidnapped him.”

“Ah, we have kidnapped him.”

“Yes, but we’ll pretend we’ll release him if she goes to a certain place alone. Then I’ll go grab her. You stay here with him. Once I have her, you can kill him and join me.”

That was the worst plan ever. Like Dominic would ever let her out of the apartment alone.

“How will we send a message to her without giving ourselves away? We need to give proof that we have him.”

“We’ll send a photo and a message asking her to go to the park where she’ll receive further instructions. I’ll snatch her and then you can kill him.”

“What if she doesn’t go to the park? What if she resists?”

“She’ll do it if she cares about him. Obviously, he’s not her soulmate like I am, but my girl has a big heart and she had no idea I was coming for her. But if she puts up a fuss, I’ll inject her with a sedative. I’ll meet her at dusk when there won’t be as many people around.”

“Fine. Fine. How do we send the message? We can’t send it on our phones.”

“Where’s his phone?”

“I turned it off. I didn’t want them tracking us.”

Dumb asses. It would still ping his last location. Corbin would be able to figure out he was still in the building. Not that he was planning on waiting around to be rescued.

“Go buy a prepaid phone,” Jerry ordered. “This plan is going to work. I can feel it. I’m going to get my girl.”

“Where is he? He shouldn’t be gone this long, right?” Ari paced back and forth across her office, feeling ill and jittery. Everyone else was sitting or standing around the room. They all pretended to be relaxed but she could see the tension in Caleb’s shoulders, in Dominic’s jaw.

Wolfe had gone downstairs to see if he could find Bain. What if he hadn’t believed her? What if he’d taken off?

No. He wouldn’t leave you, Ari. Have some faith.

The door opened and Wolfe stepped in. He looked over at her and shook his head. Her shoulders slumped. “Couldn’t find the head of security either. His office was empty.”

“His phone is still going to voicemail. I don’t like it,” Dominic said. “I’m gonna have our tech guy ping his last location before his phone was turned off.”