Page 345 of The Trouble With Bad Boys

He hauled out the impressive camera equipped with long-distance vision. He stood at his living room window and followed up on his hunch—tracking the glint of a streetlight that reflected off a car hovering on the street near his driveway.

The camera lens brought the vehicle into focus like a microscope.

Yeah, someone was hovering. Damn it.

His first thought was to call Detective Rally. The moment the man picked up, Dominic demanded, “Did you send someone to watch us?”

The detective huffed. “I don’t even know where you are, you never said. How could I have sent an officer to guard you? Why, did you spot someone?”

Dominic grunted. “Thanks for confirming. Yeah, I’ve got someone on my radar who shouldn’t be here.”

“Did someone tail you?” Rally asked.

Do you take me for a rookie? “No, I’m certain we didn’t pick him up on the drive here. He found us on his own, long after we arrived. That means?—”

“She’s got a tracking device planted on her.”

Dominic exhaled. “Yup.”

“Give me your address. I’ll come to you.”

“That would help, but I’m not waiting around.”

Rally’s voice dropped. “Don’t go rogue on me, man. I know you used to have my role in the military, but you’re a civilian now.”

“I know my limitations,” Dominic muttered. However, he also knew his freedoms, and he could take matters into his own hands if he could prove self-defense. He rattled off his street address. “Send reinforcements. I’ll call you if I find out more.”

Rally’s pained sigh echoed through the phone. “Why do I distinctly not like the sound of that?”

Dominic was glad the detective couldn’t see his crafty smile. He planned to use this pursuer to lure the mastermind out of hiding once the asshole made bail.

He needed to nail the source of the threats, or Lara’s boss would prove a menace, forever looming over her. She’d never feel truly safe—and that wasn’t an option for the life he wanted them to share.

His best recourse was to take down her boss by using his own methods against him.

They’d start by figuring out how her location had been discovered. Dominic had a pretty good idea, and the level of sophisticated plotting turned his blood to ice. Someone had gone to extreme lengths to ensure Lara didn’t see the sunrise.

Dominic clenched his jaw. He didn’t see me coming. I’m the one who’ll make sure Lara sees every sunrise and sunset…with me.

“Are you about to set up a trap without me?” Rally demanded.

Yep. “No, why would I do everything in my power to keep my girl safe, no matter what it takes?”

“Damn.” Rally exhaled. “It’s my duty to send officers to support you?—”

“Can you get here in forty-five minutes? I don’t trust this guy to stake out longer than that. Based on everything that’s happened tonight, I’m betting he’s a hit-and-run type.”

“Well, I–I can?—”

“Get here as fast as you can,” Dominic stated before he ended the call.

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Lara dragged on her clothes before she hurried downstairs. “I heard you talking to Rally.”

He cupped her shoulders. “What did you bring with you to my house, that could contain a tracking device?”

Stunned, she blinked. “Nothing. Maybe my purse?”

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