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only other option was a guest had brought those people with them.
    Back at the house, he continued trying to contact Lisa and her father. A call to her father’s office told him that Lisa’s dad was at his vacation home in the mountains. There was no way to reach him and no other information they could share.
    “Uh-oh,” Scarlett crossed her arms over her chest. “I know that face. Someone’s going to hack something.”
    He grinned at the way she whispered it. “Babe, we’re home. There’s no one else here but us. You don’t have to whisper.”
    “So what are you looking for?”
    “Just John’s mountain home address. I want to go up there and see him. Find out if she’s okay.”
    “Did you call their house?”
    He nodded, emailed himself the address, and grabbed her hand. “Yes. Nobody would give me any information other than John was gone. They knew nothing of Lisa.”
    “Damn.”
    “Ready for a quick trip?” he asked as they walked outside again.
    The sound of helicopter blades reached them. “Thank goodness. I really didn’t want to fly on your back again.”
    He chuckled at her teasing and helped her into the chopper. An hour later, they touched down in the area near the cabin. He gave the chopper instructions to land at the nearest helipad with availability and he’d give them a call when ready to go.
    They ran to the front door and knocked repeatedly. Nobody answered.
    “Maybe they’re out back,” Scarlett said and they went around the house.
    They walked down a trail. He sniffed but got nothing. His senses told him something was wrong. And a new animal decided to speak to him.

 
     
    NINETEEN
     
    Scarlett had a really bad feeling about that place. She started to turn and pull Knox with her when a group of men came out of the woods, holding rifles.
    “Oh shit. I don’t think this is good,” she whispered.
    She watched a few older men, a younger woman, who she assumed was Lisa, and seven guys point guns at them.
    “John, Lisa, I’ve been calling you both.”
    “I know,” one of the older men replied. “You know, if you had just died when these guys tried to kill you, my life would be so much simpler now.”
    Scarlett gasped. Her lioness wanted out right now. She’d tear them up and rip their balls off for putting a hand on her man. Knox tensed beside her.
    Knox growled. “You did that? Why, John?”
    John glared at his daughter. “Because she couldn’t get you to fuck her.”
    “It’s not my fault his shit didn’t work,” Lisa argued.
    Oh yeah. She was going to make ribbons out of that bitch’s face. Then she was going to lick her paws clean of her blood.
    Knox curled his hands into fists. She grabbed hold of one and held tightly. “I still don’t understand.”
    “You know, for a genius, you’re damn stupid,” John told him. “I wanted you to handle my accounts because I thought you’d be good for my side business. You’d be able to fill in the blanks about where the money was coming from and make it sound legitimate. But you wanted to keep everything by the fucking book.” He chuckled. “I know you’re great at making money multiply and I wanted that. What I didn’t want was you snooping into my shit.”
    “So Daddy thought if we were in a relationship, you’d be more likely to come to our side and understand that Daddy has some side jobs he gets paid for and all you had to do was invest that money,” Lisa told him. “But you always wanted to research where things came from and why he had more money than his accounts should.” She shook her head. “Sticking your nose where it wasn’t wanted.”
    “So we had to get rid of you,” John said. “No hard feelings, just business.”
    “Just business,” Knox growled. “Your men tried to kill me.”
    “Yeah, and we still don’t know how you came back from the dead,” a big guy with a scar on his cheek said.
    All their eyes glowed. She knew they were wolves and didn’t care that they were outnumbered.