Page 214 of Anger

The smile Kane flashes Tanner is pure antagonism.

“Sorry to take away what you believed you could hold over my head.”

Tanner clicks his pen, pulls his feet from the conference table then sits up in his seat.

“We weren’t planning on holding anything over your head. We thought you’d be willing to work with us because your sister has asked for the help.”

“I was willing to help. Except after learning you bought the club she works in, I can’t trust that her job isn’t being held over her head. Or that any of the women you have involved in this aren’t being manipulated.”

“Oh for fuck’s sake.”

Gabe pulls his phone from his pocket, hits a button then holds it to his ear.

“Hi, Love. By any chance are you in the area? We have a slight issue that I need your gorgeous ass to resolve.”

Silence fills the room before Gabe continues his conversation.

“Excellent. Please meet us at the office. Bring the rest of the girls with you.”

He ends the call then returns his attention to Kane.

“The manipulated women in question will be here in five minutes. Ivy is currently releasing them from their cages where we hold them prisoner until they become useful again.”

Kane’s eyes round, but then Blue slaps her hands on the table and pushes to her feet.

“This is ridiculous, Kane. Just drop whatever it is you’re doing because I can promise you none of the women I’ve met are being manipulated for anything. They want the information on that drive as much as everyone here.”

“You want the information?”

Blue nods her head.

“Why?” he asks. “How does anything on that drive have anything to do with you?”

Despite the secret Blue just discovered about Myth, she looks at me, grabs my hand and turns back to her brother. “Because I want their dads dead as much as they do.”

Kane cocks a brow at Blue’s statement. “Why? What have they done to you?”

“They’ve…”

Blue squeezes my hand, the answer on the tip of her tongue, but she refuses to betray me by repeating the secrets I’ve told her.

“Because they’re shitty people,” she finally answers.

“Let’s just say our fathers are the ones with their hands in dirty places and we’re tired of the games they like to play,” Gabe explains. “The information on that drive can help us find a way to stop their manipulation of an entire city.”

Kane keeps his stare locked to Blue, a silent question being asked between them.

“Damon hasn’t manipulated me,” Blue tells him.

“Don’t lie to me, Ames.”

“Okay, well, he did at first, but then we worked it out, and now I’m in love with him.” Scrambling over the explanation, she clarifies. “He’s my home, Kane. Can’t you just trust me to know who I’m with? I trust Damon. And although these guys have done some screwed up shit, I understand their intentions. They didn’t want to hold the info about Mom over your head. Taylor found that information because I asked him to. And you have to give him credit for discovering something you’ve been unable to find in all the years you’ve been searching. He’s a computer genius just like you.”

Taylor looks up from his computer. “Thanks, Ames.”

Kane sighs. “My sister is pretty good about giving credit where it’s due.”

He looks over at Taylor. “Thank you for finding that, by the way. You pulled off something even I couldn’t do.”

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