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“The point is I’ve agreed to keep you safe You’ve already been vandalized once It could be a one-ti events The guy wrote better off dead on your car As the FBI contacts investors who are victi, and your father’s arrest makes the news, you, as his son—and as far as the world knows, his heir—could be a target These first few days are critical”
“You just toldout”
“You don’t Not as long as I’m with you”
Liauy had to be working for so his services to Liam under his own auspices, not at the low price he’d quoted He’d say whatever he had to say to get Liam’s compliance “My father was arrested on Wednesday The car was defaced Thursday Nothing has happened since”
“You haven’t been out, other than to go to the car dealership”
“You’ve been watching me?”
“It’s what you’re paying es on your car had to have been watching you, too What’s to say they haven’t been doing so all weekend? Maybe the reason nothing further has happened is because you haven’t been out of your home”
“You’re trying to tellanywhere without you for the foreseeable future?” Two sets of eyes, one big and brown, the other silvery-blue, glistened with concern
“I’ you knohere you stand, from a personal security viewpoint”
His defenses dropped a notch “I appreciate that” A ss all the time And Tanner was of more use to him than not “I would just as soon drive ive people any ideas that I need a bodyguard I do not intend to start looking guilty But if you happen to follohen I’m out, then fine”
Marie took a bite of salad Gabrielle nodded And Liam was satisfied
CHAPTER NINE
MARIE’S CELL RANG justup Edith Lawson, the seventy-year-oldin 503, needed sohbor, out of her bathrooain Gordon was a bit senile, but everyone watched out for hiive hiularly Elise was in charge of arranging meals for those who couldn’t cook Most of the residents had known each other all of their lives
But at that moment, Gordon Brinley was of the opinion that Edith’s bathroom was his own
“Remind Edith that if she’d keep her door locked, Gordon couldn’t wander in,” Gabrielle told Liam as he headed up