Save Me If You Can by Christina C Jones Read Free Book Online

years,” Harrison continued, as if no one else had spoken. “Since she and I stopped speaking. She didn’t know, but I wanted to make sure she was good.”
    Savi shook her head. “I would have noticed that, you’re lying.”
    “You wouldn’t have. It wasn’t a tail, or anything around the clock. It was just somebody checking on you. Seeing where you were, if you were okay. That’s all.”
    Inez watched closely for Savi’s reaction to Harrison’s words. The other woman sat back, arms still crossed, but she was noticeably less stoic. Her eyes were suddenly wet, and she kept swallowing hard, looking at her feet, the ceiling, the monitors, anywhere but either of them.
    “So,” Inez said, turning her attention back to Harrison. “You saw Savi, figured out the connection, figured out where we are. Okay. Fine. Why come to us? You had to know you wouldn’t be welcomed with warmth and affection.”
    He grinned. “Yeah, I wasn’t expecting balloons and confetti but,” – his expression shifted into something more serious – “It wasn’t about me. I knew the girls would be safe if I brought them here, so that’s what I did.”
    “Safe from who?”
    “Terry King. He showed up at the house ready for war, so I got the kids and got them the fuck out of there.”
    Behind Inez, Marcus snorted. “Saving your own ass in the process.”
    “Goddamned right,” Harrison said. “I’m not a fucking bodyguard, and it wasn’t my day to die. I had my orders. My responsibility in that kind of situation was to look out for the kids, so that’s what I did. I’m sure your girl appreciates me saving her sisters. I mean… it’s not like you did.”
    “Mothafucka I will kill you, don’t you—”
    “ Dios mio. ” Inez pushed out a heavy sigh, pinching the bridge of her nose between her fingers. She didn’t have to look to know that the cursing, scuffling commotion she heard behind her was Kendall and Quentin keeping Marcus contained. “Marcus, relajarse, or you can leave,” she called over her shoulder. “We don’t have time for this.”
    “Yeah,” Harrison chimed, smirking. “Chill, Agent Calloway. You’ve got nothing to have your panties in a bunch about.”
    That set Marcus off again, and with her patience already very low, Inez stood up, drawing both guns from the holster at her waist. She pointed both at Harrison, one at his knee cap, the other in the area of his groin.
    “You ever had a gun pointed at your cojones, Harrison?”
    Inez lifted an eyebrow as she waited for him to respond, ignoring the chaos around her. Savi had risen to her feet, gun aimed and ready for double-taps to the head and heart. Kendall and Quentin were struggling to keep Marcus under control. But then, faintly, she heard the unmistakable sound of broken glass, and her veins frosted over.
    “ Callarse! ” she snapped, turning to point one of her weapons at Marcus. Her demand to shut up was unnecessary, because the others had heard it too. There was a moment of stillness, and Inez almost wondered if they’d all imagined it, but then in the silence, she heard the crack of gunshots. Everyone sprang into action at once, and Harrison was quickly forgotten as they clamored for the door.
     
    &
    Thirty minutes earlier…
     
    “Let’s have breakfast before we go.”
    Naomi watched Renata level that suggestion at the teenagers, only for it to be met with rolled eyes. Even after a few hours of sleep, the girls still appeared to be upset over the comments they’d overheard about Wolfe. Renata’s eyebrow moved slowly, cocking up, twitching with her effort to remain calm and understanding with the teenagers. Naomi wouldn’t have been nearly as diplomatic.
    “Yes, let’s,” she said, coming to Renata’s aid, before the other woman popped a blood vessel. She ushered the girls into the kitchen, where she sat them down at the island, propping glasses in front of them.
    They were on hour five of the six hours they’d given themselves