Her Bodyguard: A BBW Billionairess Romance by Milly Taiden, Mina Carter Page B

him and yell at him every other second they were together. Fear careened through her veins. Oh, no. She was in love. In love with a man who probably saw her as no more than a paycheck. A man who had a life as a mercenary for hire wherever the next job took him. Her day went from bad to sucking lemons. Assuming she got through this alive, she’d just have to deal with it when it he left. Somehow she’d get through it. Unless she could convince Tom to hire Andrew forever. There was an idea.
    Her thoughts were interrupted by the rackety door slamming open. She opened her mouth but quickly shut it when she saw who stood there.
    “Mercedes?” she gasped. Dear god! She was there to rescue her. But how did she find her? Acid burned at the pit of her stomach as she stared at her cousin’s not-surprised features. She swallowed back the pain from her disappointment. The only way Mercedes could know she was there was if...she was in on all of it. The last person she would have thought to have her abducted was her only female cousin. They used to play together as kids. Go to dances and charity events as adults. What the hell was going on?
    “Hi, Amy.” Mercedes smiled. She made a show of not touching the walls, so her pretty white suit wouldn’t get dirty. The burly men who had kidnapped Amy entered the room after her. “I see you made it in one piece, prima.”
    “What in the hell is going on here?” Amy tugged on the ropes holding her wrists hostage. “You are the last person I would have thought to do this,” she spat. “We’re friends!”
    “So?” Mercedes asked with her way-too-arched, penciled brows rising even further. “I can be your friend and still help daddy get you out of the way.”
    “My uncle is doing this?” Amy asked, hoping that Mercedes hadn’t really set this up to kill her.
    “No. Daddy mentioned wanting your ass out of the way.” She scrunched her nose. “He dislikes how competitive you are. I want your money. We both win.”
    Fucking awesome. Her family was insane. Tom had been right all along. She was nothing but a stumbling block on their road to her company and bank account. How could she mean so little to them?
    “You can’t seriously be thinking of killing me,” she argued. “Me! I’m family.” There was no stopping the disbelief and anger in her voice. Or the way she curled her hands into fists in the too-tight confines of her seat.
    Mercedes nodded and folded her arms over her chest. “You’re right. We are family.” She shrugged. “I didn’t decide this easily. It was difficult to come to the conclusion that you had to be taken out.”
    “Oh, let me guess, you wrote down the pros and cons on a sheet of paper?” she muttered.
    Mercedes smiled. “You know me so well. I have to see what the advantages and disadvantages of doing something are in writing.” She pouted and let her shoulders drop. “I hate to tell you, but there were more pros than cons to killing you.”
    A fiery red haze covered Amy’s vision. She’d kill her. Her normally smart cousin was letting her selfishness drive her to commit the ultimate crime. All over money?
    “I swear to god, I’m going to slap you into next week the moment I get loose,” she hissed, tugging on her ropes. “You have no idea the kind of trouble this is going to bring you and your father.”
    Mercedes rolled her eyes and sucked her teeth. “Doesn’t matter. Dad has a plan. He thinks I’m a genius for getting you at your weakest moment. That hot security guy you have following you wasn’t with you at the Carrillon building. Now we can finally be rid of you.”
    Amy growled between her teeth. “You stupid, stupid woman. I can’t believe we’re related.”
    The smile dropped off Mercedes face, and she pursed her lips. “We are related, but thankfully, that’s something I can fix. Stay for awhile.” She grinned. “I’ll have someone come and see you. Don’t look so angry, Amy. For the right price, anyone can be