Free Maybe Never (Maybe #2) by Ella Miles Page A

that again because both are out of my life. Hearing Granddad call me that makes me happy and sad at the same time.  
    “Just take it slow. No need to rush inside.”  
    “I know I’m safe as long as you are by my side,” he says.  
    I smile and nod at him as we walk slowly inside. I hope that is true. I hope I can stand by his side through everything that is coming our way.  
    I help him inside and to his bedroom and into bed. I glance at the clock. I need to get to the casino. I scheduled some meetings for this afternoon to ensure that everything has been running smoothly since his heart attack.  
    “I need to get going, but the nurse should be here soon, and I’ll notify the staff to look in on you. Do you need anything before I go?”  
    “Where are you going?”  
    “To check on how things are going at the casino.”
    He carefully eyes me. “Don’t change anything without consulting me first.”  
    I just smile. I don’t argue with him. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.  
    “I have to go,” I say before softly kissing him on the cheek.  
    I quickly run upstairs to change into something more appropriate for business. I slip on a business suit and heels, and then I run out the door to my car.  
    I am at the casino in a half hour.  
    When I walk up to the casino, I’m surprised by the crowd gathered outside. I watch as people pull out their phones when they see me walking into the casino. I try to smile brightly as they take my picture, seeming unfazed by the scandal swarming around my family.  
    I wave to the crowd at the door and then walk inside. I’m surprised to see the inside is just as crowded as the outside. I guess I expected that no one would want to gamble or stay at a casino filled with scandal. Instead, it seems we have tripled our crowds overnight. I guess what they say is true; any press is good press.  
    I head straight to my father’s office and close the door behind me. I walk over to the desk that is now covered in notes and papers people have dropped off, but no one has received because no one has been here. My father is gone. And now my grandfather. And Killian. That leaves me.  
    I quickly sort through the papers into things that need to be dealt with urgently and things that are less important.  
    Then, I dial Tony’s number.  
    “Hello?” Tony says in confusion.  
    “Tony, it’s Kinsley. Can you get everyone gathered in the meeting room in twenty minutes? I need to make sure everything is being handled since my grandfather and I were arrested.”  
    “Sure, Ms. Kinsley.”  
    “Thanks, Tony.” I hang up the phone.
    The last time I’d tried to run a meeting, it went horribly, horribly wrong. I don’t even know what to say now, other than to make sure everyone is doing their job, especially since everyone who was anywhere near the CEO position is gone.  
    I gather every drop of strength I have as I stand, and I begin walking to the meeting room.  
    I have to walk past Killian’s office on the way. I pause at the door that still says Killian Browne on the outside. The door is shut though, so I can’t see inside. I don’t know what I expect to see though. He’s not in there. And he never wanted me. He was just doing whatever the FBI had told him. He was just getting my father and Granddad to trust him so that he could find out whatever he thought they were hiding. That’s it. Nothing more.  
    I have to think of him as nothing but a man who worked for the FBI. Just a man my family tried to get me to marry. Nothing between us was real, but it doesn’t stop me from hoping that he is somehow still in the office, just like he was the day I walked in with Tony.  
    I force myself to walk past his office to the meeting room where Tony is waiting for me at the door. He smiles at me but doesn’t say anything about the charges or situation I’m in. He just looks at me with a confident smile that I match on my face.  
    “You ready?” he asks.  
    I