Page 26 of The Tycoon

She’d never been in a private residence where the commode had its own room.She looked back at Cole, who was leaning against the bedroom door jamb with his arms crossed over his chest.

“Well?Do you think you can stay here for one night?We’ll be leaving for the platform tomorrow morning by helicopter.”

Regan chuckled.“Yeah, I think I can stand it for one night.”

Grinning, Cole straightened.“Good.I’ll wash up and see you in the living room in twenty minutes.Then we can go to dinner.”

“Sounds good.Is this place fancy, or can I get by with jeans and a polo?”

“It’s not fancy.I’m not changing my clothes, so you’ll be fine.”

“Great.See you in twenty.”

Cole left with his bag.

She picked up her go bag and set it on the bed.Opening it, she took out her bath supplies, lip gloss and brush, and put them in the bathroom.Then she found a washcloth and washed her face before applying a fresh coat of lip gloss.She took her hair out of the ponytail she’d put it in that morning and brushed out the long blonde waves, deciding to leave it down for dinner.

Regan walked into the living room and found Cole gazing out the window at the skyline.“How is it that no matter how fast I am, you always beat me?”

He turned, a grin on his face.“I’m just fast.When you have five siblings, one of them a girl, and only one bathroom, you learn to be fast.The hot water only lasted so long, and I hated cold showers.”

“Well, you have an advantage over me.I was always the first into the bathroom, but I was a good sister and tried not to take all the hot water.”

Cole stepped toward the door.“Are you ready to eat?I’m starving.Ava would have prepared us something to eat if we asked.”

She walked to the door in front of him.“I wasn’t hungry then, but I could eat an entire cow right now.If I’d thought about it, I always have a couple of MREs in my go bag.”

He wrinkled his nose and pursed his lips.“I’d rather starve than eat those things again.”

Regan laughed.“Maybe that’s why I forgot they were there.I didn’t want them either.”She walked to the elevator and pressed the button.

As the doors started to open, she saw someone in the elevator and no one should have been inside.She slammed into the car before the doors had fully opened.The man inside was shoved back as much by her momentum as his surprise.

She jabbed her fingers into his neck and her left knee into his privates.

He dropped the gun in his hand as he bent forward.

While he was leaning over, she laced her fingers and crashed the resulting fist on the back of his neck.

The man landed half-in and half-out of the elevator.

Cole picked up the man’s weapon.“You are something else to watch in action.How did you know he was in there?I couldn’t see him.”

“I caught a glimpse just as the door opened.I figured it couldn’t be anyone with good intentions, because Sean would have called to warn you someone was on the way up or to ask if he should send them up.We should probably check on him and call the police.They need to pick this guy up.”She looked over her shoulder at Cole.“I think dinner will be delayed tonight.”

He barked out a laugh.“Yeah, I think so.I’m going to call Sean and then the police.Are you good here?”

She nodded and looked back at the unconscious man on the floor.“He’s not going anywhere but I suppose we should pull him out of the elevator so the police can come up.”

“Right.”Cole seized the man’s left arm.

Regan grabbed the right and they pulled him out of the elevator.

Cole called Sean.“Are you okay?”He nodded.“Glad to hear it.The police will be coming through.You might want to show them to the elevator, if you’re up to it?”Cole turned toward Regan.“Yeah, we’ll be here.”Then he looked at the man on the ground.“Come on up with the police.I want to check out your head.You’re lucky they didn’t kill you.I guess I’m the only one they wanted to kill.”He ended the call and turned back.“Sean said they forced him out of the car at gunpoint and knocked him out.So another one is down there.He didn’t know where they went, but he’s sure there were two.”

She knew Cole would insist on going to the garage with her and she mentally geared up for it.“Okay, we’re not going anywhere in that elevator until the police go down with us.I’m not taking a chance we run into his cohort.”

Cole looked down at the man.“I sort of want to kick him while he’s down for what he did to Sean.”