This couldn’t be happening. She couldn’t handle being close to him again. “I don’t trust him.”

“I do trust him. I get it. You’re pissed, but I’m the one who asked him not to tell you he was watching over you. You can be reckless.”

“I’m not stupid.”

“And getting a job at a strip club where you would have to walk to and from a lonely train station after midnight was a great decision.” He held up a hand when she would have argued with him, shutting her down. “No, you don’t think properly when your pride is on the line. So I’m giving you one of two choices.”

“I’m an adult. You can’t force me to do anything.” But she could hear the stubbornness in her voice.

“I’m calling it all in, Lis. I’m calling in everything I ever did for you. Every report I helped you write. Every burn I got from trying to figure out how to feed us. Every late night I worked to have the money so you didn’t go to sleep hungry.”

Oh, he was afraid, and in the face of her brother’s love, her pride seemed a petty thing. She reached out, tears falling now. “Will, stop. You don’t have to call anything in. I’m sorry. I’m angry and hurt. What are my choices?”

She would do it for him, so he could find some peace.

“You can go with Remy to Louisiana until McKay-Taggart figures out what’s going on and comes up with a better way to protect you.”

She wasn’t doing that. “Hard pass.”

He nodded. “All right, then I’m moving you into my place. I’ll have someone from the company come out and make sure our security is as tight as it can be. But Lis, I can’t drive you to and from work. You know what my hours are like. Mitch might be able to do some of it.”

She couldn’t go back to work. She’d almost gotten Linc killed. And if she moved in with Will, she put them all in danger, including her nephew and Bridget and the baby in her belly. What the hell was she supposed to do?

She was supposed to do what her brother had taught her. She was supposed to do what was best for her family, even if it meant sacrificing her own happiness for a brief amount of time. It wouldn’t be forever. The other bodyguards would come back from their assignments eventually. She would be first on the list to get a new one. The investigators would figure out what was really happening and they would find a way to deal with it.