Page 46 of A Seductive Beauty
“Feck, I need him to track Fiona’s bracelets.”
“What are you going to do?”
“I’ll figure it out.”
A plan starts to form in my mind, but I’ll be breaking his trust to do it. I’ll have to reveal a secret I’ve kept since I met him. Since he told me about his past and how it ties to a certain S.I. member. How he never forgave himself for his actions. But as I’ve said before, I’ll pay the devil himself to get my beauty back.
We pull through the large automatic door into the interior of the warehouse. Some of my men are already here. Seamus is doctoring up wounds on Grady, and I take in his own bloody pant leg.
“How are you?”
“We were attacked. I had two come after me, but they met the wrong end of my gun and knife. Grady had a couple come after him too,” Seamus supplies.
“Boss, I had to destroy a car, but I got away.” Grady’s deep voice sounds like he gargled glass. He looks up at me from where he’s lying on a table.
“It’s okay, bruv.” I carefully pat his shoulder. “Do I need to call in the doctor?”
“No, just scrapes and bruises mostly.”
“What’s the plan?” Seamus says as he wipes his hands clean. Shane takes over stitching up a wound to Grady’s arm.
“I need Fiona’s phone.” Seamus hands it over and I scroll through her recent calls. I notice a number that called her yesterday morning called her again today and she called them too. Fiona was trying to get a hold of Kayla. She must have called back after Fiona left her phone. This is the only way I’ll be able to interrupt Joshua and Maya’s meeting. I dial the number and start pacing as it rings.
“Fiona, I tried to call you earlier. What is going on?” Kayla’s voice comes across the line.
“This is Aidan. Fiona has been taken. I need your help.”
“What? How? Why were you with her yesterday, and why do you have her phone?”
“I have her phone and she was with me yesterday because she’s my wife. Now get to the office or get Joshua and Maya. I need you and your team’s help. Sir has her and I need to get her back.”
“You’re married? Since when? Why?”
“Kayla, we don’t have time for this. Fiona was taken about an hour and a half ago. You and I both know what he is truly capable of, and we don’t want her to endure any more than she already has. I have a tracker on her, but I can’t access it because the laptop it was linked to was just destroyed. Plus, Lex was injured.”
“Just a moment.” I hear rustling and then her talking to someone, then the noises get louder. “You’re on speakerphone with everyone here,” she says, and I only think for a moment about what I’m doing. I’m getting into bed with a company that runs on the good side of the law while I don’t. I knew I would have to team up with them eventually, it’s why I’ve been collecting all these favors.
“I need several things. I’m calling in my favors.” It’s all that needs to be said.
“Favors? You only helped us out once, as far as I know, unless you are counting all the things with the Duchess.” Joshua doesn’t know what all I’ve done for them.
“No. Much more than that. You might want to connect with your New York office too.” I wait as I hear cursing and then a click before Noah Caine’s deep voice comes across the line.
“Hey, boss, what’s up?”
“Noah, I have a call here from an Aidan Tiernan. He says you might have some favors owed to him.”
“I didn’t quite say that.” I correct him.
“I don’t know an Aidan.”
“Let me refresh your memory. Last year your wife was attacked, and before that she had two mob families after her. A hacker with top notch facial rec gear was after her.”
“Fucking hell,” Noah says, and I hear the voice of the one I expected to be there.
“Oh my God.” Her accent reminds me of Lex’s.
“Bekah, Lex did that. You know his facial rec software; you even use it. Last November Lex helped Marco Graco with a situation with his wife. We have been working in the background for a while now. Ever since Sir came to me and I realized I would need your help to bring him down, we’ve been guiding the underworld around your company, Joshua. Now I need your help. My wife has been taken by him and I want her back. My office was destroyed, and my men and family were attacked today. I’m short of men, missing a hacker, and ready to kill anyone who steps in my way.” I leave it all hanging out there.
