blanket that had slipped down. He wrapped it gently around Betsy, then to Ink’s shock he ran his hand down her blonde hair.
Reyes wasn’t an affectionate guy. Hell, most of the time he refused to speak to anyone who wasn’t part of the Iron Shadows. The only women he could ever recall the cold president even speaking to were Jewel and Sunny.
So this was completely out of character.
“Poor little subbie,” Reyes muttered. He looked at Ink. “You need to watch her. She’s so filled with guilt over all of this that she’ll likely do anything to protect you. Without any thought to her own safety.”
“That’s not happening,” Ink growled. He tightened his arms around her. “She’s not even leaving my fucking sight from now on.”
At least not until all threats were eliminated. Maybe not even then.
Betsy stirred in his arms. She glanced up at him, she was a mess. Hair everywhere. Eyes puffy. She wasn’t a pretty crier. Not at all.
And yet, he thought she looked gorgeous.
Got it bad, man.
“Ink, I have to go back.”
“What?” He had to have heard her wrong.
“I have to go back. I can’t stay with you.”
15
Betsy watched as his face turned to ice. Tension flooded her. She didn’t want to upset him. But leaving wasn’t an option.
“Her shadow downstairs is starting to get antsy. Betsy, were you supposed to check in with him?” Brody suddenly asked.
“With who?”
“The man who followed you here.”
“I…no, I don’t even know who is following me. I know there is always someone watching. There had to have been at least one person at the club and someone who watched me on our date. That’s how come I left you a note. They’ve probably bugged my phone, although I’ve only had that a short time.”
“Angus was being blackmailed,” Ink told her. “That’s why he let you into the club, and set up that meeting between us.”
It made sense.
“Do you have a way of getting hold of him?” Duke asked her.
She blinked, feeling confused. “Who? Forrest?”
“No, brown eyes,” Ink explained. “The guy downstairs. He’s getting suspicious.”
“Probably because the two of you have been making porn noises for the last forty minutes,” Brody stated matter-of-factly. “He’s gotta be wondering how Ink has that much stamina.”
“Brody,” Ink snapped.
She could feel herself growing bright red.
“Sorry,” Brody muttered.
“He has a tendency to open his mouth without thinking,” Ink told her. “We need to get Betsy out of here without him seeing. We’ll go out the back way. Leave all her stuff in the room so they can’t trace her.”
“I…I…Ink I can’t go with you.”
She waited for the explosion. But to her shock, he just ignored her, looking over at Duke. “Can you get my truck brought around to the back entrance?”
“Ink,” she said loudly. “I can’t go with you.”
“You are not going back there.”
“My boys—”
Ink stood and set her down on the end of the bed. He pointed at Duke. “She doesn’t move from this room. I’m going to go call Matthieu, he’s smart and deadly and he owes me a favor. He’ll get your sons out. Then there’s no reason for you to stay.”
“What about the evidence he has? What about his threat to release it and get Baron arrested for Rex’s murder?”
Ink paused and stared down at her. He seemed so calm that it surprised her. Then he looked over at Brody.
“You can get that evidence off his computer?”
“Maybe. If it’s hooked to a Wi-Fi system and he doesn’t have it backed up anywhere,” Brody told him.
“He owns at least three houses,” she told them. “He could have the evidence at all of them. I can’t take the risk.”
They all fell silent.
“We need something on him. Something that will keep him quiet,” Reyes suddenly said. He looked at her. “You think there’s something like that we could use?”
“I don’t know much about what he does, but I know a lot of it isn’t legal. I guess there could be something in his office. If I could gain access…”
“No!” Ink said. “Not. Fucking. Happening.”
“I could give her a pen drive,” Brody told them. “All she’d have to do was plug it into his computer, and it would suck up all the files. Few minutes tops.”
“He’s not there at the moment,” she whispered. “There are guards and cameras, though. Kit, the guy that took over from Rex, sometimes he goes away with him, other times he stays at the house. If he’s around, I don’t think I’ll get into the office. He’s always the one who monitors