Alexander, Kortny - Come and Get Me [Whispering Mountain 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) (13 page)

May walked over to the wall and turned on her lights and then closed the rest of her blinds. When she made her way back to the bed, she saw the pen she had used yesterday broken and the pieces scattered on the wooden floor. Her gun was still at her side when she heard the bedroom door open, but she was too stunned by what she was looking at to give any attention to whoever had just walked in.

“May?” Remy called out to her.

“What’s wrong?” Kane asked as they both made their way over to her.

She couldn’t seem to pull her eyes away from the tiny red blinking light lying on the floor. Training, instincts,
something
should have kicked in, but nothing did. She just stared dumbstruck at the blinking light. Kane and Remy came to stand on either side of her. She knew they were there, but she couldn’t seem to look away from the light.

“Well, damn. I guess that answers our question,” Remy said as he squatted down to examine the contents on the floor.

“Focus, May.” Kane snapped his fingers in front of her face. “We need you, princess. I know you’re a social worker and you have the psychotherapy thing going on, but right now we need you to access that sweet military training you were given. Three pairs of eyes are always better than two.”

May started nodding her head. Adrenaline was finally beginning to flow through her body. She could literally feel the surprised state she had been in dissipate. “That’s a tracker. GPS.” She nodded at the contents on the floor.

Remy looked up at her and confirmed her statement. “Correct.” He pushed the crushed plastic that seemingly made up the ink pen to the side until the only things left were a pen drive and pieces of the GPS tracker.

May moved into action. There would be no sleeping tonight. She knew exactly what she was looking at now. She laid the gun she had been holding on the bed. Pulling out a shirt and a pair of jeans, she changed while Remy and Kane examined the items still lying on the floor.

“Crush it and flush it,” she heard Remy tell Kane.

Once she was dressed, she removed a double-shoulder holster from her drawer and put it on. She holstered the gun she had placed on the bed. May opened her nightstand drawer again and removed a second weapon and secured that one, as well. The room went silent.

“What?” She threw her hands up as both men just stared at her. “I still know how to use one. I get plenty of practice, and my license is current. You both are armed to the teeth, and you think I’m going to sit around here with nothing?
Puh-leeez
.” After clipping a knife to the hip of her jeans, she continued. “For the past few days, that man has been after me, swearing up and down I have something of his, and guess what. I do. He’s coming after me, and we all know it. And thanks to me, I just let him know exactly where I am being holed up. Who knows how long that thing has been active.”

She saw Remy and Kane exchange worried glances but avoid direct eye contact with her. Remy picked up the pieces from the pen and proceeded to walk to the bedroom door.

“So now what, Colombo one and two? Are you just going to give each other cryptic looks and keep things hidden from me?” She felt Kane’s hand at her back. Clearly he wanted her to follow his brother. Her anger was quickly growing, but without another word she fell in behind Remy.

May followed them to the huge office they had been working in when she fell asleep. That was the only room in the house she hadn’t been in, and now she saw why. There was so much high-tech computer and surveillance equipment in one corner, it looked like a command post, and it held their work-related projects in the other.

Remy walked to one of the computers while Kane pulled out his cell phone. May chose to observe the cameras that were located on different ends of the property. She knew there were motion detectors, but they were no longer on.

“Why aren’t the motion detectors on?” she asked to no one in particular.

“They are on. The lights turn on, but the alarms are disconnected because the wildlife around here kept setting them off,” Remy answered as he typed in something to secure the connection. “The house alarm is set, and there’s a buzzer that alerts us to anyone pulling onto the property. We have infrared cameras at a few locations. We tried to cover as much as we could with last-minute notice. We have an arsenal in this house, May.” He inserted the drive.

Kane was talking to someone. The conversation was low and muffled. He’d moved away from her so she couldn’t hear what he was discussing. It didn’t matter in her eyes. She was busy watching those damn cameras.

“Is there a way to rewind?” She had found a camera that had a view of her bedroom window.

While nodding and answering questions with “yes” and “no,” Kane walked over and pointed out a few buttons and walked away again.

May sat down and pulled up the camera she wanted and rewound the tape. She sat, not truly seeing anything. “You know, when I was a little girl, my sisters and I used to play a game. We would see who was better at sneaking through the living room and kitchen without making the red light on the motion detector light up.”

She leaned closer to the screen and clicked a button a few times to magnify the screen. She used another button to scan the area, making sure to take her time as she did so.

“It was a skill, you know. My dad had placed those things just right. If you crawled on the floor in the living room, the motion detector in the kitchen would pick you up. When the red light flashed, that meant one of us lost the game. I, of course, always won.” She scrolled tighter. The surroundings were so dark it was impossible to see anything by her window, but she knew,
felt
something had been off when she woke up.

“It took me a while, but I was the one out of the four of us with patience to retrieve the chocolate milk from the refrigerator. That was the prize. ‘Who’s the best burglar’ was the name of the game. Move slowly enough, be patient enough, and you just might trick the motion detectors.”

“What do you see, May?” Kane had finished his phone call and was now standing behind her.

“Sometimes a person doesn’t notice the detectors until the light flashes. Or in this case, the camera lens turns in the direction of the motion it has detected.” A few more clicks and she had managed to find what she was looking for.

“Watch the bushes near my window.” She played it in slow motion. This person was good at moving painstakingly slow. “Watch the bush slowly expand and disappear again.”

“Remy, they’re here. I know Timmons won’t come by himself.”

Remy rushed over to the cameras.

“Watch as the bush slowly grows an arm and a head.” Kane and May both pointed it out as the stranger peeked out from behind the bush. He was looking into May’s darkened bedroom.

She shivered, realizing her hunch had become very real. May felt as if her chest had become heavy, but her training kept her from going into full-blown panic mode. She could protect herself, and she had no doubt that Remy and Kane would keep her safe. But knowing a deranged killer had found her didn’t help her mental state.

“Damn! How could we have known he’d have a head start?” Remy shook his head as he stood. May could almost feel the anger vibrating from him as she watched Remy pacing the floor. “I couldn’t break the coded password on the drive, but it doesn’t matter. We need to worry about what is about to happen here.”

“You’re right.” Kane wore a menacing look that May had never seen before as he rose to his full height. “I called Trevor a few moments ago, and they are almost here. I don’t think Timmons will wait much longer. We need to be ready.”

May slowly came to her feet, afraid to say anything. The deadly looks on Remy and Kane’s faces were enough to shut anyone up. Both men had on black clothing and double-shoulder holsters, as well as Tasers strapped to their thighs. She watched as Kane pulled a knife as long as her forearm from a sheath hidden in his pants leg. He examined it closely, flipping it in his hand before sheathing it again.

Remy pulled a gun from his holster, checking to make sure the safety was off. After doing the same thing with his second gun, he caught her staring at him and smiled weakly. Closing the small distance between them, he cupped her chin and pressed his lips to hers gently.

“Are you…” He grinned slightly. A look of worry flashed in his eyes. “How are you and the baby?”

She caught movement to her left and knew Kane had moved closer. He placed his hand on her stomach and caressed it. She looked from Remy to Kane and felt her heart begin to race.

“I’m good. The baby is good. And don’t even think about making me sit this one out. Timmons has violated every inch of my personal space, and it ends here. I can handle myself, I swear.”

Remy and Kane exchanged looks, nodding in agreement as if they’d just had a silent conversation.

“Okay, but if either me or Kane yell for you to run, you get your ass to the panic room in your closet. No arguments.” May shook her head when Remy kissed her again. “And remember, the PIN is your birth date.” He kissed her. “I love you, princess.”

May didn’t dare hold back the grin that formed. It was the first time Remy had told her he loved her. “I love you, too, Remy.”

The hand still moving along her stomach grabbed her attention. Remy stroked her cheek and moved aside to allow Kane his turn.

“Hey.” Kane brushed a strand of her hair out of her face.

“Hey.”

Even the danger surrounding her couldn’t suppress the love she felt for Kane and Remy. They made her heart skip, her mouth go dry, her words evaporate. She was head over heels in love with them both.

“Safety off?” Kane was serious, but she could see the love and concern in his eyes.

“Yep.”

“You know I love you, right?”

May laughed as he leaned closer, pressing his forehead to hers. “I know you do. I love you, too, Kane.”

“If you get hurt, you’re on permanent bed rest until the baby comes.”

May gasped and looked to Remy, who only frowned back at her.

“I can make it happen. You know my cousin is a doctor.” Kane covered her mouth with his before she could mouth off a snarky comeback. After breaking their kiss, they all moved in the direction of the door.

“Once this is—”

May went silent when the power went out. She felt Kane step back as she reached for her weapon. She pulled her flashlight from her hip. Remy had snapped it on her when she had first walked into the room, but she didn’t think she would actually use it.

Suddenly there was a loud crash, and an ear-screeching alarm blared.

“Cut the alarm, Remy. She’s right. This shit ends now.”

“Already on it, Kane. Backup will be here soon enough.”

The alarm’s unbearable sound ended within seconds.

Chapter 15

“Don’t leave this room. Understand?” Kane’s chilly command shocked the hell out of May.

Even though she was unable to see his face in the darkness of the room, she was certain there was a threatening scowl on his face. She sighed heavily.

“But—”

“No arguing. We don’t have time for this. Keep your butt in here until we tell you it’s clear,” said Remy as he moved past her.

May took a few steps back, moving away from the door. “Fine.” What had been the purpose of training together if her men were just going to lock her away?

When the door opened, she could clearly hear the intruders stumbling through the house. She smiled to herself in the darkness. “Sounds like they aren’t as stealthy as they should be,” she mumbled as Remy and Kane slipped out, disappearing into the darkness, closing the door quietly behind them.

May sat on the floor, pressing close to the door so she could hear what was happening on the other side of it. She could hear the grunts, scuffles, and crashing furniture. Threats and curses were spat out by her men as well as the intruders. Albeit faint, she swore she heard Trevor’s voice, but she didn’t have time to ponder the thought.

A single slow, unsure pair of footsteps was making its way down the hallway closer to her. Somehow, someone had escaped detection. May was certain the footsteps didn’t belong to any of the men she knew. Remy and Kane knew the layout of the house like the back of their hands, so there would be no need for them to walk so slow, bumping into things as they walked down the hall.

Afraid and a little apprehensive, May slowly stood up and drew her weapon from her holster. She waited and listened. It wasn’t as if she could yell for help, and she was afraid of distracting Remy or Kane by texting them. The light from her cell phone might compromise her position, and she wasn’t willing to do that.