Page 130 of For Your Consideration

“He has two prior charges of assault and one charge of stalking.” My stomach tightened at Will’s words as I imagined Sutton being with him. He may be Sophie’s biological father but I would replace him in that role in every way that counted. “All the women were paid off, given nice settlements, and threatened if they ever tried to come forward.”

“Payoffs were under the table, I take it.” Jaxson rubbed his jaw, the tic reflecting my own anxiety. I knew he had something in his past that made him especially angry about stuff like this but he’d never said exactly what it was.

“Yes. Charges were dropped with no explanation but we found the money.”

“There’ll be more women who just haven’t come forward.” I ground my teeth together.

“I agree and we’re working on that. We don’t think his family has any idea what their son is up to and the drama we’ll bring to their lives. They would know better than to fuck with Knight Enterprises.”

“Good, then go to his family with the information, see what they do,” I fumed, venom in my voice.

“We don’t want to give him a chance to worm his way out of this. We want him cornered, which means we have to be smart.” I saw the logic Will was laying out, but it didn’t mean I liked it. “I have to ask this so don’t bite my head off, yeah?” Will held my gaze but I said nothing. I would be pissed off with whatever he was about to say and he knew that.

“Was I brought here just to help hold him down if he loses his mind?” Jaxson questioned. When I still didn’t say anything and just raised an eyebrow, Will gave in.

“Do you know if he ever assaulted Sutton?”

Fire snaked up my veins and I was about ready to kill someone. Though the answer was no—she had told me he was manipulative but hadn’t hurt her physically—it didn’t mean the idea of it didn’t make me sick.

“She told me he didn’t,” I ground out.

“Does someone not in a relationship with her need to check, in case she’s afraid to tell you?”

“She trusts me with her secrets; she would have told me.”

“Okay.” Will held up his hands. “I had to make sure we have the full picture.”

“We confirmed he’s still in Vancouver and I have someone watching him, but his track record makes me concerned he won’t let this go easily.” Jaxson rubbed his jaw again. When we met at university he was winning underground fights. Not because he needed the money but because he needed somewhere to channel his aggression. He did it for the first two years we knew him and then he gave it up.

But he had always had a drive to take care of those around him, to protect them fiercely. When he started with Knight Enterprises the first thing he proposed was the security division of the company. His goal was to see us have private security that would ensure our safety and that of our companies, and for us to invest in security technologies, all of which had paid off. Knight Enterprises Security was now one of the most sought-after security firms. Celebrities and politicians paid a lot of money to have our people guarding them.

“What do I need to do?” I asked Jaxson. I could tell from the look on his face he already had a plan.

“New alarm system at the house and at her apartment if she plans on staying there.”

“She won’t be staying anywhere but my house. But we need to install something at Iris’s since Sophie spends her days there.”

“Her building isn’t the best,” Will mused with a frown.

“I know.” If I had my way, she would have moved in with me already.

“But if we owned it we could upgrade the locks, get that fucking elevator working, and get the security upgraded at once.”

I locked eyes with Will. Why the hell hadn’t I thought of that myself?

“Same thing we did with Quinn’s building.”

“Call Oli and Noah, get it done today.” It was three o’clock—still plenty of time to buy the place. Will nodded, already on his phone and walking out of my office. It likely wouldn’t be a large enough cost for us to call all the guys in for a vote, and either way they would all say yes. “What else?” I asked Jaxson.

“Aside from that, get her to share her location with you just in case,” Jaxson said with a rare dark frown on his face. “There isn’t much else. Everyone’s seen a picture of him—show one to Iris too so everyone is on the lookout. I have an alert set up on my phone to notify me anytime he goes more than ten minutes from his house. We let Maya do her thing and we can all help keep tabs on her if we need to.”

I let out a sigh and rubbed a hand over my head. I hated not being able to do anything right now, absolutely hated it.

“One thing.” I pushed a page over to Jaxson.

“Daycares?”

“Sutton picked these out to tour for Sophie. I’m assuming she went medium budget but I want to know everything about these places and everyone who works there. And if there’s somewhere better I want to know.”