Kisses for the Billionaire: Final Kiss Read Online Free Page B

emotion.
    I had no idea who this Killian was and I sifted through all the names of everyone I knew in David’s family before coming up empty.
    “Who’s he? Why is this bothering you so much?”
    David pushed up onto his feet and crossed the room, the tension in his back causing my stomach to knot up uncomfortably as I watched him. Whoever this Killian was had David worried but what about? I had no clue and it wasn’t the first time since all this had started that I felt as though I was in the dark.
    “Killian is a cousin of mine, his father was my uncle, a brother to Henry.”
    “Why didn’t you mention them before?” I asked, the knot of concern in my stomach growing as I watched David fidget.
    “Because our side of the family, doesn’t have anything to do with their side, my uncle didn’t exactly earn his money in the most savoury of ways.”
    “All right, so what does this cousin of yours want?”
    David fell silent and I fought the urge to get up and shake him until he spilled the answers he was keeping from me.
    “He knows what I was planning on doing,” David said, and my heart came to a shuddering halt in my chest.
    “He’s trying to blackmail you? He does realise you’re innocent, that you were being threatened but that you never went through with it?”
    David shook his head and turned back to face me, there was a small sad smile playing around the corners of his lips.
    “I’m glad you find all of this so funny because I don’t. The last thing we need is someone else involved.”
    “He’s involved because he’s the mark,” David said.
    I stared at him, his words refused to make sense as they swirled around in my head. What the hell was he talking about, what mark?
    “He’s the one Andy and Dominic want me to kill…”
    David’s words hung in the air between us and I swallowed hard. It had seemed so utterly unreal before and the more I heard about it all the more ludicrous it all seemed to become. I couldn’t imagine David hurting anyone. In self-defence perhaps, I knew he was more than capable of looking after himself.
    But the thought of him wilfully going out in search of someone to kill… It didn’t make sense inside my head. It wasn’t who he was.
    “Carrie, say something, your silence…” he trailed off and the look on his face twisted my gut. He sounded broken.
    What was I supposed to tell him? When none of it had seemed real I could tell him that it didn’t matter but now?
    “He’s not coming here,” I said, it was the only sentence I could get out. I couldn’t think past the thought that David had come so close to murdering someone in cold blood, my mind refused to help me think up something reassuring I could say to him.
    “They’re on their way over,” he said moving across the room to drop down on the blanket next to me. “You don’t need to meet him, I can handle it.”
    “If he’s coming here then I need to meet him. Jesus, David…” I trailed off and buried my face in my hands.
    David wrapped his fingers around my wrists and slowly tugged my hands away from my face. I kept my gaze trained on the blanket in front of me, the patterns suddenly fascinating.
    “Carrie, you know I would never have done it if there had been any other choice. I proved that by going after you instead…”
    “I know that…” I said but I still couldn’t shake the discomfort that unsettled me. This was the man I’d married, the man I loved, the one I thought I knew and yet he could still do something like this to surprise me.
    Deep down I knew he hadn’t gone through with the horror the Banks’ had wanted him to commit but I also knew he’d have done it if I hadn’t found a way to contact him.
    He’d have killed for me. If life were nothing more than a romantic Hollywood blockbuster then I’d be flattered by the gesture but that wasn’t reality and I wasn’t flattered.
    “You’re behaving as though I really did kill him. He’s coming here, Aaron is bringing him