Lasting Summer - [Loving Summer 05] by Kailin Gow, Kailin Romance Page B

“What makes you God? Only someone who is perfect can
judge anyone else. And from the looks of it, you are far from perfect.”
    Nat
threw another punch but Sloane caught his wrist and head-butted Nat who fell
back.
     
    “I
don’t know who you are, but you better mind your own business,” Sloane said. “I
have unfinished business with Summer and her two loverboys. One of them tried
to kill me – Drew wasn’t it? And the other one, Nat…got me time in prison.
Luckily, thanks to some corrupt politicians, my guys got me out for helping law
enforcement hack into child molester sites and sending them to prison.”
    “Trading
one sick bastard for another I see,” Nat said.
    “So I’m free to go as I please and now I’m
free to seek revenge out on Drew and Nat. Do you know there’s a bounty on Nat
Donovan? Pretty huge too. Not nice to cross the head of the cybercrime
syndicate. Now it looks like I’m getting the bounty.”
     
    He approached Nat, producing a knife from his
pocket. Nat kicks at him, but Sloane twists and grabs hold of Nat’s leg,
pulling him forward and down, causing Nat to fall.
    “No!” I shout, rushing towards Sloane. He
turned around and stabbed me in the side, and I fell to the ground. “Na…” I
almost shout, but realized Sloane didn’t know Cooper was Nat, and saw Sloane
handcuff Nat to a chair, then turned to me to cup my face. “Since you’ve been
doing the wild thing with him, you would know where Nat is, wouldn’t you,
Babe? But first, looking at your hot body, I’m not through fantasizing about
you. That stunt you pulled with your three loverboys that got me into prison,
only made me angrier and more determined to have you. Now, the first place I’m
going to fuck you in is your office. Then…” he place his knife against my neck.
“You will strip for me starting right about…”
     
    Booooooooom!
     
    It sounded like a firecracker had gone off in
the room, and I reached up to cup my ears.
     
    Sloane had been kneeling over me, but now he
was down on the ground next to me. A bullet hole in his head.
     
    I looked over to the doorway heading to the
hallway and saw Drew standing there, a gun in his hand, looking shock.
    “He had a knife to Summer’s neck,” he said.
“He was going to kill her.”
    I got up, clutching the side where Sloane had
stabbed me. “Drew!” I said, trying to get to him. “It was self-defense. He had
a knife to my throat, and he was going to rape me. He stabbed me, and…”
    “About time someone got that Motherfucker,”
came a deep booming voice behind Drew.
    A tall and muscular man in his late 30s stood
behind Drew.
    “Who are you?” I asked, wanting to protect
Drew. If this was the police…
    “I’m Lamar,” the man said. “And no, I’m not
with law enforcement. I’m with the FBI.” He looked over at Nat handcuffed to
the chair.
    “Lamar,” Nat said. “I had to see Summer…and
if I haven’t been here to check out the Academy, Sloane would have gotten to
her earlier.”
    Lamar gave Nat a pointed look but said, “I’ll
talk to you later, but now, what do we do with these two?”
    My eyes grew wide, realizing that Lamar may
not want me and Drew to have witnessed what happened to Sloane.
    “It was self-defense,” I said. “Drew was just
helping me and Nat…”
    “Nat?” Drew’s eyes traveled to Cooper. “You
mean…he’s Nat?”
    I closed my eyes. Now we were in trouble. I
blew Nat’s cover, right in front of the FBI.
    “So you really didn’t know?” I asked Drew.
    “No, I was even suspicious of Cooper, how
fast he moved in on you and how quickly you two were already friends…”
    “Drew,” Nat said, “I couldn’t reveal myself
to you, too. As much as I wanted to, I could only see you two as Cooper.”
    “The cover, it was so good,” I said. “Nat
acted like a Cooper, and he looked different.”
    “I used what I knew about stage makeup from
what Aunt Sookie taught me at the Academy,” Nat said, “And Lamar