Page 4 of Pretty Girl

Chapter Four

“Where is she.” Alec snarled.

He felt like a caged animal.

His love, his princess, his sweet, sweet girl was taken from him. When he gets his hands on those fools, they would have no voice to sound their pleas.

“On route to FBI headquarters,” his bodyguard swallowed thickly.

Alec stomped out of the room and the restaurant while the staffs and patrons parted ways for him. The car was already waiting for him when the backdoor opened, not a second wasted when he pulled out his phone to call his lawyer.

His car could have run every red light, ignored all pedestrians, and sped way over the limit, but he did not care.

This had to have been some ploy to feed lies to Sophie and get her to go against him because he knew he would do anything for her.

Confess to crimes, give up secrets, even turn himself in.

He’d do anything if his princess looked at him with that pretty smile.

FBI building stood tall and dark against the setting sun, brick walls in between windows all around strong constructions.

A villain in a building full of heroes was a sight to be seen. Men in suits snapped their heads to the entrance where Alec stood tall and angry. Weapons drawn at him with commands to get to his knees.

Obviously, he refused. He had Sophie to retrieve. Entertaining clowns in blue was not on his agenda as he demanded to see her.

Alec had been a criminal for years, he knew the process like the back of his hand. The government tried almost all actions to convict him of whatever crime they could get their hands on.

His money thirsty lawyer dealt with the legalities while Alec handled illicit activities within his family.

As his lawyer spewed out all sorts of legalities, one of the higher-ranking agents stalked up to them with her clacking heels on the marble floor. She held herself with the confidence of a woman in high powers and an air of superiority.

Cara Norman.

She was a beautiful red-haired woman with defining facial details and a curvaceous body shaped through rigorous training. She was also one of the headaches that tried to dismantle his empire through undercover work.

She seduced her way into of one of his men’s bed. Her seduction ploy didn’t appeal to him like the innocence of Sophie, and the moment he met her, he knew the woman was off in a way that left a bitter taste in his mouth.

Alec could see the predatory gaze in her eyes as she swept her eyes up and down his body.

“Mr. Layette, what do I owe the pleasure?” she smiled, half professionally and half coy.

“Sophie Hayes.”

Short and to the point, he had no intention of chit chatting with a woman who threw a tantrum when her undercover identity got blown just within the first week of infiltrating.

That was putting it lightly. That woman could change her mood in split seconds.

Cara snarled, she hated hearing how the man she wanted was infatuated with another woman. “I have no idea who that is.”

She was kept in the loop on impending cases and activities of the Lafayette Mafia because she was a member of the team that worked to dismantle and stop Alec.

Ever since she heard the news of Alec frequently visiting Eclipse for a measly little waitress, she felt anger and envy. She was a successful woman with intelligence to back her up, full scholarship tuition to the best college, and beautiful to a fault. Cara was every bit better than Sophie Hayes.

“Do not speak her name.” he hissed with animosity.

A tingle of arousal shot through her body at his deep voice.

His lawyer stepped in with a voice of reason, “I’d like to see my client, Miss Hayes.”

Cara’s calculating eyes swept to the lean man and haughtily turned her nose to the air.

“She’s being question,” Cara glanced around the opening and saw that some of the agents had lowered their weapons and the ones with guns still aimed were right to do so considering how dangerous of a man Alec Lafayette was.

“Follow me.”

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