Vengeance by Kelly Carrero Page A

he know you were back here?” Chelsea asked.
    I shrugged. “I don’t really know.”
    “He must have some sort of surveillance around here,” Lucas said under his breath. “Maybe we should see if Kai can find any cameras.”
    “Good idea,” Dave said. “He’s coming around a little later to give us an update on the Chrissy situation, but I’ll call him to see if there’s any way he can do a search on this place while he’s here.”
    I wondered why Dave hadn’t thought about asking Kai to do it sooner, but then I realised Nathan was probably stopping them from thinking of ways to figure it out. I had to wonder just how strong Nathan’s mind must be if he was able to control so many people, including my mother, who didn’t seem to recognise him at all.
    “Do you know what time he’ll be here?” I asked Dave. “Because I was thinking of going to see my mum, but I want to be here when Kai arrives.”
    “He’ll be here in about an hour,” Dave said. “But it’s just after midnight in the U.S., so you might want to wait ’til morning to go over there.”
    Damn. Sure, I could wake up my mother, but the real reason I was going over there was to speak with Harry, and I didn’t feel comfortable enough to wake him. “I guess we’ll have to wait ’til the morning.”
    “You know that means you’ll probably see Nathan again, and you won’t be able to know what he’s thinking,” Aiden said.
    “I know, but I can’t wake up Harry. So we’re just going to have to deal with it.”
    As if on cue, Nathan walked into the room, which sent chills up my spine. “Hi, guys.” He plopped into the armchair opposite where Aiden and I sat. “So where have you been the last few days?” he asked me casually.
    My body went rigid, and I had to focus on trying to make sure I didn’t treat him any differently from normal. “This whole thing with my father screwing with me just got to be too much. And then there was my mother, who had this whole other life I didn’t know about, and a stepsister I didn’t know I had. I was just expected to deal with it, and I couldn’t. I needed a time-out, away from everyone.”
    “Except Chelsea,” he said.
    “Well, yeah… I needed some girl time.”
    He nodded slowly, and I wished I knew what he was thinking. The way he looked at me made me worry that he knew I had figured out who he really was. “I guess you needed to do what you needed to do. I’m just glad you’re back now so we don’t have to listen to Aiden freaking out about where you were.”
    “What do you expect?” Aiden asked as he wrapped his arms possessively around me, bringing me back against him in what I thought was a move to show Nathan that things between us were definitely still good. “Of course I’m going to freak out when she disappears and she’s got this psychopathic arsehole after her.”
    “Okay, okay,” Nathan said, putting up his hands. “I was just mucking around with you.”
    Dave cleared his throat. “I don’t think now’s the right time to be mucking around.”
    Nathan pulled his eyebrows together. “Why? Did something happen?”
    “Yeah, like he doesn’t already know,” I said to Aiden.
    “Adam left another message for Jade. The kids were watching a movie, and at the end of it, he put on his own movie of Chrissy’s murder.”
    “Shit,” Nathan said, pretending he actually cared. “Was there any message?”
    “Just a warning to Jade not to go into hiding again,” Lucas explained. Then he added, “He said that if she hides again he’s gonna kill Chelsea.”
    “Why would he change who the next target would be?” Aiden asked. I had been so caught up with seeing Chelsea mutilated that I hadn’t picked up on the new threat.
    “No idea,” Dave said.
    “Maybe it’s because Adam knows you’re back with Aiden now,” Nathan said. “Maybe there’s a reason why he wants to make sure you’re together.”
    I tried to remain calm. “What the hell?” I said silently to