A Sinful Encore by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

“She’s gone. The woman is gone.” I twist back around to face Kace. “Maybe she was just some random person. I don’t know. I called Savage. He saw her, too.” I grab Kace’s shirt again, my words hissing from between my teeth. “I knew we shouldn’t have come here.”

“She might have been trying to see if they were open, baby.”

“From across the street?” I ask in disbelief.

“It’s snowing,” he says. “Why walk over if it’s closed?”

“Right. True. I guess you’re the voice of reason. Or not. Maybe I’m the voice of reason.” I turn back to the window, scanning for her again, something clawing in my mind. Something about the woman feels familiar. Or not, I think. I just can’t be sure.

My cellphone rings in my hand and I glance at the caller ID, twisting around to face Kace. “Savage,” I say, answering the call.

“She’s with her husband and kids, who wanted cookies. We’re all clear. Don’t forget my cookies.” He disconnects.

My lips press together and I let my phone fall from my ear. “Savage wants cookies. So did the woman, according to him. She had a husband and kids with her and they all wanted cookies.”

“See,” Kace says, stroking my shoulders. “All is well, baby.”

His touch, his intention, I know is just another way he’s telling me that he’s here, he’s with me, and while I know that, he’s not alone, either. Jenny and Jerry are here. “It still doesn’t feel right, Kace. I know you know none of this feels right.”

“I know and I’m not going to pretend I don’t. We’re in this together, and as you said, the good, the bad, the ugly. We know there’s ugly. Which is why we’re going to Germany. And we’re flying private. They won’t know we left or where we went. Blake is a technology magician. He’ll keep us invisible.”

“I trust Blake. I wish Gio would cooperate. I think we’d know more. I need to try to get through to him one more time before we leave. I need to tell him I’m leaving and I have to warn him about me coming out as, well, me.”

His expression tightens, a cynical tinge to his voice. “I don’t know, baby. Can we talk about this later, when we’re alone? And we will. Of course, we will. I promise.”

I never miss the way he communicates. He demands in bed. He asks outside of bed. I like this about him. I love this about him. “Yes. Yes, of course.”

He captures my hand and brings it to his mouth. The minute his lips touch my knuckles, his gaze collides with mine, and I’m floating in the deep blue sea of his eyes, the tension the mere mention of Gio has created in us both, fading. “We should go say our goodbyes,” he says, his fingers twining with mine. “The real estate agent wants to meet us in fifteen minutes. She can only get us into one tonight. The other two are tomorrow.”

“I can’t wait to see them,” I say.

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