Page 24 of The Bodyguard

“Maybe. For now, we should keep this out of the press.” I point to the doorway. “Go. I’ll lock up behind me.”

I need her to leave before I fucking wrap her in bubble wrap and lock her up.

Not again.

Not fucking again.

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I PUSH DIAL on my steering wheel.

“What? I’m on my honeymoon,” Josh says, and I can hear the grin in his voice.

“Aidan isn’t answering. Savannah Sinclair has just received a threat.” I grunt.

He curses. “Tell me.”

I glance at the envelopes sitting in a plastic bag on my passenger seat. On the white card, in capital letters, it simply said:

STOP FUCKING NICK MARCIANO OR I’LL EXPOSE YOU

Josh is silent as I update him.

“Is she?” he then asks.

“Not as far as I can tell. I’m confident she’s not.”

“But they’re actors,” Josh says.

“Sure. But they’re also pretending they’re fucking. Or at least teasing the media,” I grunt.

“Could be a crazy fan,” he says. “Get it tested and if we lift any prints, we can go from there.”

Standard procedure for our team.

Which is why I’m on my way there now.

“Is this the first one she’s received?” he asks.

“Yes,” I say, turning my SUV into the Black Hawke Security, or BHS as we call it, parking garage. I switch off the engine and jump out, then head to the elevators and punch the button.

“Keep me updated. I’ll be home in a week, but you have the resources of the whole team. Tara might be able to get prints, otherwise we’ll send it out for DNA,” Josh says, referring to our new lab manager.

While the BHS lab is much simpler than what the police have access to, we have contacts at the local university who can do us favors if we throw enough cash their way.

And we do.

DNA matching can take months, but the university lab can do Rapid DNA in a few hours. It’s not admissible in court, but I’m not a lawyer, so...

If I have a name, I’ll do what needs to be done to protect Savannah.

Even if she is a pain in my ass.

“Enjoy Hawaii.” I hang up.

Cassy, his bride, won’t be happy I called, but she knows what he’s like. He was her private security when a convict who’d stalked her for years escaped from prison. We caught him, but not before the fucker took her.

No one was surprised when Josh proposed and married her quickly. He’s very protective of the rock star’s daughter.

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